Kayla Summers Hunt

Book first appears in: Love and Let Die

Main character in Nobody Does It Better

Physical description: Dark, sleek hair that hangs to her waist. Dark eyes. 5’3”. Scar under her right clavicle shaped like a candy cane, curved to the left. 

Relatives mentioned: Husband: Josh Hunt. Kids:  Baby boy born during Evidence of Desire. Adopted parents: Freddy Summers and Jim Gayle. 

Other information:

• Grew up in Santa Barbara with her adopted parents. Freddy and Jim were happily married since they legally could be but together since they were twenty-two and met at a disco in 1979. Fred was a dancing bartender. Jim was the fly DJ. Dad (Jim) teaches Mandarin at the University of Santa Barbara.

• Was brought into the CIA by John Bishop but spent time learning from Tennessee Smith, too. 

• Speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.

• Spent years posing as her dead twin sister, Jiang Kun, in MSS. 

• Birth mother had her smuggled out of the country. Kayla had been born a twin when China’s birth rules allowed for only one child. Her sister, Kun, had stayed behind and become an MSS agent.

• It was Kayla's sister who had a brief affair with Big Tag that nearly led to him not being able to father children. 

• Worked for the Agency for years before leaving to join McKay-Taggart.

• Tucker, Jax, and Owen were her boys. Her brothers from another mother. 

• Liked to call herself Mother of Pranksters when she was in watching over the Lost Boys. 

• Now handles security for Josh. Lives in Malibu.