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Ben and Cybil haven’t seen each other in a dozen years. Back then, they were teens who had played together for years on her uncle’s Texas ranch during the summers. Each may or may not have been harboring a crush on the other, but stuff happened.
Now, they happen to run into each other at a museum fundraising gala. Neither is there for fun or fundraising. Ben is an FBI agent, long embedded in a role that his team hopes to be culminating soon in the arrest of a bad guy. Cybil is an executive assistant for father-son business owners, saving up for law school — and she’s doing some spy work as well.
Now their separate goals are overlapping, and the work of each is getting disrupted by the other. What’s worst is that neither can be sure if the other is who they say they are — and on the right or wrong side of the law.
Making their jobs more complicated are all the memories and feelings that neither Ben nor Cybil can push back down. As they continue to cross paths, they face constant danger — and don’t know for sure if the other has changed somehow and is one of those dangers.
I had fun reading Spies, Lies, and Alibis. I tend to not read the same genre a few books in a row — I have to mix things up regularly. So after a more “serious” read, I went for this lighter one, involving romance and not-too-intense spycraft. I’d picked it out from a recommendations list somewhere — since I enjoyed Ally Carter’s holiday romance-mystery The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, this one would be in a similar vein. It was. I didn’t find it as fun or swoony, but it was satisfactory and hit the right/expected notes. Plus, both are clean, no-spice, no-profanity. And that’s always welcome.
Rated: Mild. There is no profanity, and sexual content is limited to simple kissing. There is somewhat frequent but mild violence, including a shooting injury with some mention of blood, fighting, and peril with shady characters.
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