Lily Vale is on a mission to take down the psychotic and evil assassin, Jude St. Laurent. She is also an assassin who works for SHADO, the same covert homeland security agency St. Laurent was a part of. Lily despises Jude because she believes he is responsible for killing her gentle father and many other innocent Americans. Her superior, Robert Dietz has kept Jude alive for his own personal reasons that Lily is not all that aware of. It is believed that Jude has secret computer files on weapons of mass destruction that cannot fall into the wrong hands. Dietz has erased Jude's memory for the sole purpose of getting Lily working as Jude's personal assistant to find the missing files and poison Jude where he'll hopefully die a horrible and painful death.

Jude has a great deal of short term memory loss. All he knows is that he was in a car accident, which made him legally blind. He has horrible headaches and suffers from depression where he spends his days working on his erotic paintings and seducing his models. Along with his friend, and sometimes lover and live in chef Liam O'Neil, he has a life of privilege and decadence anyone would wish for. Until he can regain his memory, the darkness he tries to keep away begins to consume him. Things may change for the better when Lily comes into his life. Jude knows she is a keeper when she doesn't even bat an eyelash at his over-the-top sexual antics.

As Lily grows closer to Jude, she is very confused, because he doesn't seem to be the cold blooded killer she believes him to be. With Dietz breathing down her neck to get the job done, Lily must decide to either kill Jude, let him live or do her own investigating, because nothing is what it seems and one wrong move on her end could get her killed.

I SPY A WICKED SIN had its moments of titillating love scenes but overall in the majority of them I didn't feel the chemistry. Jude seems to come across as one-dimensional and his emotional outbursts are more like those of a spoiled rich boy. Lily is not much better--from the moment she spies Jude with one of his many women. Even though she is playing a role, her actions are very confusing.

This supposed espionage tale is lite on excitement even though Jude must be the best multi-tasker alive because not only was he a deadly assassin who was never caught, but still had enough free time to create priceless works of art.

I was really expecting so much more with I SPY A WICKED SIN, but it really failed to deliver.

Book Summary

The author of When Alex Was Bad and The Firefighters of Station Five series provides another titillating two-pronged mission: seduce...and eliminate.

Jude St. Laurent is a former assassin for SHADO, a covert homeland security agency. After a mysterious accident, he's lost all memory of his former life, and embraces his new identity as a hedonistic artist. But when he's haunted by visions of the past, he turns to his new personal assistant for help-and she knows just how to make him forget.

Jude doesn't know that Lily Vale is a secret agent who uses sex to manipulate her targets-and always gets her man. But her mission takes a turn when Lily realizes that there's more to this case, and Jude, than meets the eye. If she's going to save them both, she'll have to find out who's pulling the strings...