Category: Mystery/Suspense Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ISBN-10: 978612173634
Pages: 241
Copyright: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781612173641
The hero is after the killer for vengeance. The heroine to prove she is strong enough to save her family.
Maxwell Thomas is hiding from the law. With a million dollar bounty on his head, he's suspicious of the pretty redhead who shows up at his remote Texas cabin during a blizzard. But TJ Callahan appears to be just as she claims: a woman whose car ran into the ditch.
TJ's on a mission to save the family ranch from foreclosure, even if it means turning bounty hunter on Christmas Eve. She's never apprehended a criminal, and never encountered a man as tall, dark, and dangerous as Max, but she can't let that stop her. Before long, though, she and Max are running from a killer––and Max is starting to trust her.
Max's trust turns to ashes when TJ tries to collect the reward.
Now she has to decide: lose the man she's come to love? Or get her man?
Promise Kept is the first book in a six book series on the Callahan family.
Excerpt
He came out of the shadows. Her breath hitched as the light caught his hard features. Was she crazy?
His size and the look on his face made her stomach clench. The man was dangerous. Taking a deep breath, she braced herself; felt the muscles in her legs and arms tense. “What?” she asked, looking up at him. The reality of the situation grabbed her in the gut. She might be able to take him by surprise and get away, but where would she go in a snow-laden countryside without a vehicle?
“You want to go? Let’s go.”
“You’re kidding.”
His mouth twitched again, but it didn’t make the knot in her gut disappear.
“It’s either that or hold it all night.” He didn’t wait for an answer. “I’ll carry you.”
She moved to go to the bathroom so fast she staggered, reached out for support. His arm encircled her waist, lifted, taking most of the weight off her ankle. Every spot his arm touched made her uneasy.
She didn’t like this. Not at all. At the door, she stopped, struggled away from those strong arms. “I can make it from here.”
“You sure? I don’t mind.”
“I’ll just bet,” she mumbled.
He frowned as he handed her a small flashlight.
She took it, slammed the door in his face and leaned against it. Was there a way out of here? Not with her car in the ditch and this stupid ankle.
She waved the light around the tiny room. It appeared to be a hasty addition to the one-room cabin. A bucket of brackish looking water sat beside the toilet. At least there was a toilet. The shower had cement walls with exposed pipes.
No window. And it was as cold as a meat locker.
A perfect prison.
Book three in series. Excitement and tension begin on the first day of filming a Restoration drama on location at the historic Jacobean mansion, Ham House in Surrey.
