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The Dryad by Nora Quick
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Category:
Romance
Publisher: Nora Quick
Pages: 160
Copyright: Jan 7, 2015
ISBN-13: 2940046517460
Price: FREE! (eBook)
Behind every mask lies burning passions and dark secrets.
On a dark night in Chicago superheroes and supervillains collided. Sixteen year old Raven Keppler helplessly watched as Master Bloodless turned evil in a single stroke when he murdered her aunt Dryad. Hero Gryphon sent Bloodless to a watery grave, all of them unaware that Annette Keppler took deadly secrets with her to the great beyond.
Ten years later Raven must don her aunt’s costume and raise the villain Dryad. Blackmailed into discovering her aunt’s secrets, she must locate a map stored at the house of James McBride, the man Raven loves, and guarded by Gryphon, the superhero she fears.
But Gryphon has been waiting for her return and he knows just what to do with naughty villainesses. When Master Bloodless crawls from the grave it’s a race against time to discover where the map leads. Lost in the world of superheroes and villains, Raven will find herself seduced, defeated, and victorious by turns, but will her heart survive long enough to save the world?
Excerpt
She peered out the window but the coast was clear, so she flew out, floated there and closed it. Suddenly she was grabbed from behind and instinct made her drop the key into the rosebushes.
There was no need to demand an explanation. There were four superheroes in the Midwest, but only one of them could fly without a special suit that made a racket up close.
“Gryphon,” she said, her voice low.
His baritone chuckle made shivers course over her skin. “In the flesh. Finally got you, Dryad. I’ve been meaning to ask what you’re doing in town, especially since Master Bloodless killed you ten years ago.”
She smiled as he pressed her back to his front, and she felt her body surrounded by warm, hard muscle. “I should thank you, then, for killing him eight years ago.”
“I didn’t do it for you, or should I say for your predecessor. I killed him when he turned his back on good and started to pick up where the real Dryad, the master thief, off.”
“There you have it. You have to let me go. I wasn’t stealing anything, Gryphon. Frisk me if you want, but it’s not like I can teleport anything.”
He leaned close until his deep voice was right in her ear. “I don’t know anything about you except you can fly and you’re wearing the suit of a woman who died as the most famous supervillain in the city’s history. Maybe I should frisk you.”
He kept one arm around her waist like a steel band and the other moved slowly over her curves. Her breath caught in shock as guilt edged for a moment while James’ face floated in her vision, and then Gryphon’s voice filled her ear again.
“If you didn’t come here to steal, why are you here?”
She didn’t dare trust him with the truth and her brain was fogged with the feel of his body, his hands. Until last night she’d kept her distance from men perfectly over the last few years, and now she was discovering she was starved for touch.
She had what her father demanded, perhaps it was time for Raven to take what she wanted. “Maybe trying to flush you out.”
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