her hair from her face.
“What now?” How would they make this work?
“Let’s figure that out together, one day at a time.”
She smiled and ran her hand along his big biceps. “Today,
we’re here in…” Why couldn’t she remember the name of this place? “Whatever
town this is in Florida.”
He laughed. “You don’t even know where you are?”
“Nope.” A burst of sweet emotion raced through her. “But I
think I finally know where I belong.”
“I do too, Delta.” He touched one finger to the spot over
his heart. “There’s a place for you right here.”
Tears welled in her eyes as her world finally stopped
wobbling and spun easily on its axis.
####
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for the second book in the Heroes in the Saddle Series? Rex’s book, Badge and a Saddle, will be released in the spring of
2016 in the Cowboy Justice 12 Pack, along with eleven other books from eleven
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of new releases. And here's a sneak peek:
Rex and Mina’s story:
Badge and a Saddle
Chapter
One
Rex Tarrow set his
badge and gun on the night table next to his bed and sat down on the mattress
behind him. Dropping his head, he ran his fingers through his dark hair, which
had needed a cut for the last two weeks.
This missing
persons case, though. It had consumed him, kept him awake nights, drew his
attention away from his other duties during the day. Nothing about it made
sense. Doctor Mina Cooper, an astronomer at the U of Texas at Austin. Why would
a woman like her, single, young, beautiful, go out on a turkey hunt on a ranch
just outside of Dallas/Fort Worth and disappear? And the woman was a friggin’
vegetarian.
The neighbor’s dog
barked. After midnight, and the darn animal was outside?
A beam of light
flashed through the room. It had to be the neighbor. Was that raccoon back
after the garbage cans?
Rex stood, even
though every muscle, tendon, and bone in his body told him to lie down and get
some sleep. Hell, what would one more night without rest matter? He trudged through
the house to the back door as footsteps clomped up the porch steps and the
flashlight beam caught Rex in the eyes.
“It’s Jeb from
next door.” The man’s gruff voice nearly rattled the pane of glass out of the
door.
Shielding his
eyes, Rex opened the back door. “What’s going on?”
Jeb’s flashlight
redirected to a woman’s face, partially shielded by blonde hair and…sunglasses?
She held her hands up at her shoulders as if in surrender.
“The lady here,
she says you know her.” Jeb shifted his shotgun away from its deadly aim at her
back.
Tipping her head
up, she stretched to her full height of nearly six feet, just a few inches
shorter than Rex.
He snapped on the
porch light as she removed her glasses.
“Holy fu…” Rex had
to swallow. Twice.
Dr. Mina Cooper
stood right in front of him, living, breathing, and lifting an eyebrow at him.
“Are you gonna keep a girl standing on the back porch all night?”
####
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during a rescue. The hours they spent protecting their communities, the days when
their families didn’t have them with them at home, the knowledge that every
time that alarm rang, there was a chance they wouldn’t make it back to the
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