Harley & Dylan: Mortimer Security IX (Mortimer Security #9)

Dylan Dearing, journalist, is used to certain aspects of his job. While he hasn't encountered that many threatening situations, he knows that they come with the turf. But one of them goes a step too far, and his friend Heath Lerner suggests hiring Mortimer Security, seeing as how he won't let go of the investigation.
Harley Manning thinks that being a journalist and investigating corruption tips can lead to threats. She doesn't think it's a big deal. Then she meets Dylan Dearing, she learns more about his work, and she knows she has to keep an eye over him while he gets to the bottom of things. It's also not a bad thing that his looks almost make her giggle and that he's as nice as he is good-looking.
But when a body falls out of a building and the threats suddenly carry more violence that either anticipated, the clock is running, both on the investigation and on Dylan’s life.

Warning: There are explicit romantic scenes. For mature audiences (+18).
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Excerpt
Dylan Dearing, thirty-two year old journalist, relied on his instincts more often than not when working on a story. He was usually good at figuring out who was lying and who was telling the truth, and when a source showed up with a scoop, he had an almost perfect track of figuring out if there was an actual story behind it or if it was a simple rumor.
On an early March cold Friday night, Dylan was working on a political story that included bribes and money laundering through public construction contracts. He had received an anonymous email telling him to look into specific contracts, although it wasn’t easy to tell who had been the only—if there was only one—politician involved in the actual crimes.
While he had been quick to assess the scoop and deem it investigation-worthy, what had put the final nail on the coffin had been another anonymous email telling him to forget the story.
He had scoffed and decided then and there that he would get to the bottom of things.
As he returned to his apartment in Brooklyn, his instincts told him someone was following him.
Dylan downplayed his instincts, thinking he was being paranoid.
Dylan should have paid more attention, not only to his instincts, but also to what was going on around him.