The Devil She Knows
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❝ I'm going to keep playing Peter, your adoring husband, for as long as you can stay calm. ❞
The Wyatts are a power couple for the modern America. As young parents at the top of their careers in the FBI, Annie and Peter are defending national security one moment and painting macaroni art with their daughter Cassie the next.
With their combined talent for negotiating hostage situations, criminal profiling and interrogation, it's no surprise that hiding the cracks in their elopement is yet another skill in this couple's retinue. Almost seven years after the drunken one-night stand that brought them together, there aren't any lies left to tell.
On the eve of fruition for Annie's career-defining bid: a shot at deputy chief of staff, she's left with just one loose end to chase. All she needs to do is find the FBI mole who has successfully evaded the sights of her taskforce for the last eight months.
As the investigation converges on her own husband, Annie is forced to question the one loyalty she vowed never to compromise. In a marriage born of lies, is there still such a thing as true love?
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