DALLAS HOEDOWNNot cheerleader material. FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd had always known that about herself. A former basketball star at the University of Texas, she’d wanted to play the game, not rally the fans. Now, in her tenth day in Dallas working undercover as a newly hired medical equipment sales rep, she’d learned she wasn’t cut out to sell either. Her jaws ached from maintaining a pleasing expression rarely required by the Bureau. And her manufactured zeal was fading faster than her smile.
Pale winter sunlight poured through the glass window-wall, warming the room. Dawna stifled a yawn and glanced at the petite brunette sitting to her left. Like the other six women in Dawna’s group of new recruits at Nacere Health Management Systems, Whitney Stone was a former cheerleader. Most
