A Kiss to Die For
by Gail
Barrett
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BLURB:
Homeless
Army veteran Sullivan Turner is nobody’s hero.
His failure to save his fallen comrades proved that. So when a gutsy social worker gets caught in
a drug gang’s crosshairs, he knows he’s the last man who can safeguard her and
the pregnant teenagers she’s trying to protect.
Former
debutant Haley Barnes learned the hard way how to survive. After witnessing a cold-blooded murder, the
terrified teenaged runaway changed her identity and hid to save her life. But when the killer tracks her down and
attacks the girls in the homeless shelter she now runs, Haley knows the time
has come to stand and fight. But to
bring down the powerful killer she must confront her high-society family’s
darkest secrets -- and convince wounded warrior Sully Turner he’s the hero she
believes.
Excerpt
“Are you all
right?” the man asked.
His low,
gravelly voice drew Haley’s attention, and she turned her head. She met his grim, whiskey-hued eyes, and her
belly made a little clutch, the reaction catching her unprepared. Startled, she took in his dark, furrowed
brows, the stark lines of his craggy face.
He had straight, collar-length hair dampened with sweat, a slightly
off-center nose that hinted at less than a choirboy past. A few days’ worth of razor stubble -- several
shades darker than his hair -- covered his throat and jaw.
Her heart
made another swerve. He wasn’t exactly
handsome. But man, oh man, was he
attractive. Arresting. Thoroughly masculine in a decidedly carnal
way. He looked like an old-fashioned
gunslinger, like the loner who rode into town, risking his life to battle the
bad guys and save the day. A solitary man
in need of comfort who left behind a trail of broken hearts as he rode away.
This was the
homeless man, she realized with a start.
But he was nothing like she’d expected.
He was younger -- in his mid-thirties at most -- and far more virile. He wore work boots and tattered jeans, a long
sleeved T-shirt he’d pushed up to his elbows, exposing the tendons roping his
arms. His hands were big and lean. He cradled the gun with lethal ease.
He was the
most beautiful sight she’d ever seen.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Gail Barrett is the award-winning author of thirteen romantic
suspense novels. A former RITA® and
Daphne finalist, Gail has received the Book Buyer’s Best Award, the Holt
Medallion, the Booksellers Best, The National Readers’ Choice Award, and
numerous other awards. She lives with
her husband in Western Maryland. For
more information, visit her website: www.gailbarrett.com.
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