It’s random snippet time…the book is due out next week.  Eek, ack, and shriek.

Some will be short, some will be not-so-short.  Some may be spooky-ish, some may be sexy-ish.

Here we go… a spooky-ish one…

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Outside, the wind wailed.

A storm was blowing in and although it wasn’t cold, she found herself rubbing her arms, chilled to the bone.

She thought about turning on the TV, but this late at night, her best bet was infomercials, lousy horror movies, or worse.  Something gross and scary, the last thing she needed when she was already freaked out for reasons she couldn’t entirely explain.

As midnight edged past and she still couldn’t settle her restless mind, she thought about reading.   Absently, she realized the wind was dying down.  Maybe the storm would blow over.  Making her way to the one of big, floor to ceiling bookshelves that Law had in damn near every room one the lower floor of his house, she sighed and moved over to the window, absently adjusting the blinds.

And that was she felt it.

The eerie sensation of…wrongness.

Her breath lodged in her throat and she eased peeked through the blinds, staring out in the darkness.  Her breath came in hitching gasps as she tried to breathe past the knot that had suddenly lodged itself in her throat.  Tried to breathe…and couldn’t.

Tried to breathe…and damn near screamed.

10.25.2011

A CRY IN THE WOODS

The scream Lena Riddle hears in the woods behind her house is enough to curdle her blood—she has no doubt that a woman is in real danger. Unfortunately, with no physical evidence, the local law officers in small-town Ash, Kentucky, dismiss her claim. But Lena knows what she heard—and it leaves her filled with fear and frustration.

Ezra King is on leave from the state police, but he can’t escape the guilty memories that haunt his dreams. When he sees Lena, he is immediately drawn to her. He aches to touch her—to be touched by her—but is he too burdened by his tragic past to get close?

When Ezra hears her story of an unknown woman’s screams, his instincts tell him that Lena’s life is also at risk—and his desire to protect her is as fierce as his need to possess her.  Read more…

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