For three years Laura Drake has watched Senator Pete Worthington promote a series of gorgeous women while she sits in a forgotten corner answering constituent letters on an outdated computer. When Worthington asks her to find an elusive file one Friday night he sets off a series of events that brands her as a killer and puts her life in jeopardy. The path she sets out on forces her to confront not only the nature of evil but the ghosts from her past that have never been set to rest.FBI Agent Dalton Ross transferred from Chicago to Washington to escape his own ghosts. When his investigation leads him to Laura he's torn between his desire to keep her safe and the need to protect his own heart. As the mystery that surrounds them deepens, Laura and Dalton race to save themselves and the nation from someone willing to sacrifice anything to protect a secret.
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Excerpt:
Dalton
checked his gun and opened the driver’s side door as quietly as
possible. “Appearances can be deceiving.”
She
opened her door too. “You leave me here, I’m gone when you get
back.” She flashed an object in front of his face. “And I’ve
got the key.”
“Do
you have a death wish or something?” How had she managed to get
hold of the key? He was sure he’d put it in his wallet, which was
tucked away in the glove compartment. He would have remembered it if
she’d opened it. “I thought you said you were dull.”
“I
am.” She deposited the key down the front of her dress. “But I’m
kinda getting the hang of this adventure thing.” A grin tugged at
the corner of his mouth, but he suppressed it. She was charming, no
doubt about that. And damn mysterious, too. As she stood there
smiling with cat-like satisfaction, he had to resist the urge to take
her in his arms and kiss her. Just the idea of pressing his lips to
hers was making him hard. The trouble was Laura had no idea what she
was up against. She thought of all this as an exciting change from
her ordinary life. But this was real life, and real life was full of
people whose sole purpose was to inflict as much pain as they
possibly could. It was all too easy to go about one’s business
without ever seeing the dark side of things—he’d done it for
years, and in a way, he wished he could go back to being that
twenty-year-old kid who signed up for an interview with the FBI
mostly to impress his buddies. But after more than a decade spent
hunting killers he knew that like all fairy-tales, the
happily-ever-after of suburbia had its monsters.
In real
life, people died.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
I live
in an old Cape house with my daughter, too many books, and a
red-and-white Siberian husky born on Halloween. After working in
Washington, D.C. for several years and traveling to Russia, Europe
and Pakistan, I moved back to New England. I’m the author of the
romantic suspense novel Vertigo, which is available as an E-book from
Amazon Encore and in paperback from Wild Rose Press. Collateral Risk,
the follow-up novel to Collateral Damage (which features Dalton’s
boss Nick Doyle and scientist Mia Lindgren), is forthcoming from Wild
Rose Press. When I’m not working on fiction, I write poetry, teach
literature and am still trying to learn how to cook.
Goodreads
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