This requires them to travel to a silver mining town in Colorado by train. The story revolves around Strickland and the Feds' efforts to nail a former confederate of Gardiner's for a massive counterfeiting operation.
Strickland's testimony helped but Gardiner away, but it's not exactly a friends-to-lovers story because each respects the other's skills and the romance is a very slow burn (with an HFN rather than HEA ending). The story is about a Secret Service agent, Emlyn Strickland, who specializes in counterfeit currency and a convicted forger, Darrow Gardiner, who has been serving time in Sing Sing. I don't mean this is derived from fanfic or is P2P, but rather that the pace, rhythm, characterizations, and other style choices echo what I see in fanfic. This one didn't work as well for me, but it may just be me. I'm a big Tamara Allen fan and have reviewed and recommended a lot of her books at Dear Author. Beset by turncoat agents, angry miners, and the burgeoning threat of a wealthy and powerful McKee, Darrow and Emlyn discover that standing on opposite sides of the law doesn't safeguard them from the dangers of friendship-or a deeper attraction that may force Darrow to choose between the real and the counterfeit as he's never done before. But on the cross-country journey in search of McKee, another attempt on their lives leaves operative and outlaw stranded miles from Denver, with no one to rely upon but each other. It seems an objective within Darrow's reach after he rescues Emlyn from an assassin, earning a measure of his trust in the process. And with a little maneuvering, he'll have the one thing a vengeful McKee may consider fair barter: the Secret Service operative whose testimony sent them both up the river. He wants possession of his best work, the flawless fifty dollar plates still in McKee's hands.
Promised his freedom in return, Darrow's after something more. When counterfeiter August McKee takes illegal advantage of a sinking silver market, his former confederate Darrow Gardiner shares that information with Agent Strickland so they can track down the once-friend who left Darrow to rot in prison. Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing's population a respectable boost.
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