HelenKay Dimon’s BRANDED, about a CIA operative, now disavowed as a rogue agent who turns to her former lover – the wealthy power broker she once betrayed — for help uncovering who framed her; he’ll help her all right…and also take his revenge, to Leis Pederson at Berkley Heat, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (World English).