{"title":"Vault · Guarded by…","description":"\u003cp\u003eVault access for Guarded by... stories and related digital reads from Cassie Alexander, organized for quick series browsing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"guarded-by-the-spider-audiobook","title":"Guarded by the Spider (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonster Security Agency: Guarded by the Spider — Audiobook\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🎧 Narrated by Jonathan Lake \u0026amp; Avery Caris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor my kind, to be without a mate is to be doomed. I know it is too late — all that awaits me is retirement and death, and I've embraced it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when a suicide mission lands on my old boss's desk, I'm the one he calls. Who better to tackle the mission in the deep, oppressive mines of my own ancestral homeland, if not an Arachnae already slated to die? And it's not a rescue mission — he wants me to retrieve the corpse of a billionaire's daughter kidnapped by a terrorist organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExcept our intel was wrong. She's alive. Tortured and injured — but alive. And from the moment I scent her, I am certain she's my mate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe cowers in fear when she sees me, yet I will stop at nothing to protect her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd now that I have a reason to live... a whole lot of people are going to die.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonster Security Agency is the most elite bodyguard service in the world. These monster bodyguards are lethal, powerful, and determined to protect their clients at all costs. They shouldn't fall in love with their principals, but if they do? 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