Bitter Tree

She was sent to kill him. She married him instead.

Eleanor was a teenage girl with no family, no future, and no one who cared--until the CIA recruited her, trained her to kill, and sent her halfway around the world to eliminate a French archaeologist named Rene Laval. His crime? Discovering something in the deserts of Saudi Arabia that could destroy the global oil supply forever.

She was supposed to end his life. Instead, she fell in love, defied her handlers, and married the man she was orde...