Collateral
Damage
by
Gwenan Haines
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GENRE:
Romantic suspense
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BLURB:
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answering constituent letters on an outdated computer.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:
He slid
onto the barstool next to hers. From the way the man who had been
sitting there had gotten up she wondered if he’d slipped him some
cash. Though, to be fair, she hadn’t actually seen him do it…
His eyes
locked onto hers. “You don’t sound too sure about that.” What
was it about him that made her pulse quicken? Was it “sexual
chemistry,” a phrase Zoe always used when explaining her latest
one-night stand? Or fear, an emotion even more basic—and more
dangerous. “I am meeting someone,” she said quickly. “Or I
was.”
“Now
you’re not?”
Before
she could answer the bartender appeared and set down two pints of
beer in front of them. Her companion paid, sliding the lighter pint
toward her. “I’m Dalton Ross, by the way. And you would be—”
“Laura.”
“Well,
Laura,” he said after a slight pause, “I hope you don’t mind
Pilsner. Didn’t figure you for a Guinness girl.” He raised a
glass of dark liquid to her and took a swig. “To new friends.”
Laura
raised her own glass and took a tentative sip. “And to old ones,
too.” Was it her imagination or did his eyes visibly darken? Before
she could decide, he was again the charming redhead hitting on her in
a crowded bar.
**SPOILER FREE**
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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.
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