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A Shadow on the GroundBy Rebecca Lee SmithPublisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc.Release Date: July 23, 2013Genre: Romantic SuspenseLength: 246ISBN: 978-1-612179-82-7ASIN: B00E4WYVKKAdd to GoodreadsAbout this book:Morgan Maguire is afraid to believe in second chances. The family orchard is failing, her twin brother is being framed for murder, and the sharks are circling. The tough exterior she's spent years hiding behind is beginning to crumble, just as the man who shattered her heart is back in her life. Gage Kirkland is as compelling and magnetic as ever, and he's offering the kind of help she may not be able to refuse. But can she trust him?To finance his troubled son's therapy, Gage, a former investigator, takes one last job--recovering a stolen Civil War artifact. Unfortunately, it's in the possession of the woman he left behind, the woman who's haunted his dreams ever since. The electricity between them still crackles, but unless he helps exonerate her brother and finds a way to confess his true reason for returning, how will he ever recover Morgan's heart?
Excerpt
“Stay
where you are!” Morgan cried. “I have a weapon!”
Gage
didn’t move. Beneath the mercury vapor lamp, his shadow stretched across the
ground in front of him like a dark crack in the earth.
“Morgan.” His low baritone sounded distorted
and gruff, as if his voice had pushed her name through the thick night air.
“It’s Gage.”
“What
are you doing here?”
He stepped forward and cupped his hand over
his eyes to shield them from the glare. Beneath the light, all he could make
out was her silhouette standing on the porch. If her weapon of choice was a
loaded gun, and it was pointed at him, he hoped she knew what she was doing.
“I
asked you a question,” she said.
“I’m
here to beg a favor.”
“Well,
that’s easy. The answer is no.”
“Look,”
he said. “I get that you don't want to see me. I understand. But I can’t change
the past.”
“Neither
can I. Go away.”
“I
need—”
“I
don’t care what you need. Get back in your car and drive toward the mountain.
Or off the mountain. Your choice.”
“Not
a good time to stop by, huh?”
A
long, silent pause. “No, Gage, this isn’t a good time. This is a terrible time.
The only thing that could make this time any worse was if I was covered
head-to-toe with poison oak and had scarfed down the Fried Clam Special at
Maxie’s Diner. I can’t talk to you right now. I can’t talk to anybody.”
He
edged closer. “I know you’ve had a bad day, but please, hear me out.”
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Rebecca
lives with her husband in the beautiful, misty mountains of East Tennessee,
where the people are charming, soulful, and just a little bit crazy. She's been
everything from a tax collector to a stay-at-home mom to a house painter to a
professional actress and director. When she's not churning out sensual romantic
mysteries with snappy dialogue and happy endings, she likes to travel, go to
the Outer Banks for her ocean fix, watch old movies, hang out at the local pub,
and make her day complete by correctly answering the Final Jeopardy! question.
Twitter
- @rbeccaleesmith
Amazon
Author Page –
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ReplyDeleteI loved the excerpt! Sounds like a fantastic story!
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ReplyDeleteI live in coastal NC, but on the opposite end of the coast from the Outer Banks. Perhaps you should get your ocean fix from Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, NC?
ReplyDeleteHi, Catherine. I've been to Wilmington, and it is a beautiful town and beach, but my husband and his sister inherited a cottage at Kill Devil Hills, so I'm kind of locked in to going there. But really, any old beach would do for me; I love it so much.
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