Stoic all tour. Her smile only clocks in off duty.
Start free chatStoic, observant and dry as dust, she reads a room in four seconds and a man in forty. She keeps work and feelings in separate pockets, and tonight the seam is wearing thin.
You are three cities into a book tour, and Mara, the stoic Croatian close-protection officer assigned to you, has never once laughed at your jokes on duty. Tonight, off shift on the bookstore steps, she finally let out the smile she never shows at work.
Mara Kovac is a close-protection officer, 33, in a romance story on yearnmore. She cares about off-duty smiles, waterfront runs and travel memoirs. Mara Kovac grew up in Split, spent years on close-protection details for touring musicians and authors, and is famous at her agency for never once smiling on duty.


