LIFE FLIGHT
by Shaunna
Wolf
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BLURB:
Malachi
Blackfeather has spent twenty years in the Army. Two of those years as a
Vietnam POW. Now that he's out, all he wants is some peace and quiet to figure
out what to do with the rest of his life. Between the flashbacks, and an over
interest in sex that is now being called sex addiction, finding his path isn't
easy.
Kat is trying to escape an abusive marriage. Her soon to be ex is a master at manipulating the system, and her family thinks she should stay with him, "because no other man will want her". She's looking for escape in any form she can get it.
When they meet, sparks fly. Trapped by a blizzard, can two damaged people, who think there is no chance of love in the world for them, find each other, and survive an unforeseen circumstance that puts both of them in danger?
Mystery, romance, and danger, fill this novel, with a story that will draw you in and not let go.
Kat is trying to escape an abusive marriage. Her soon to be ex is a master at manipulating the system, and her family thinks she should stay with him, "because no other man will want her". She's looking for escape in any form she can get it.
When they meet, sparks fly. Trapped by a blizzard, can two damaged people, who think there is no chance of love in the world for them, find each other, and survive an unforeseen circumstance that puts both of them in danger?
Mystery, romance, and danger, fill this novel, with a story that will draw you in and not let go.
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Excerpt
We stared at
each other until Johnny cleared his throat.
The back of her hand went down the side of my face. She put the back of her hand to her face. Frowned, and then moved back to her place on
the floor. What had that meant?
The trooper
cracked a beer. Began telling us about a
nudist house party he’d broken up. Kat
laughed, stroked his ego with her voice.
But her gaze kept coming back to me, I’d look back and she’d shift her
attention away, then I’d catch her again.
Did she want me out of the room?
Did her soul’s demon want this new prospect? Did she even see it as a demon? As something that had taken the place of real
feelings and human emotions--to the point they had to be borrowed and stolen
from others?
My third beer
and the room felt like the outdoors.
Wind whistled over the glass. I
pulled the other blankets out of the closet.
Zipped my coat. Johnny zipped his
and pulled gloves on. Stood up. At least not drunk.
“Going to my
car,” he told us, “Y’all welcome to come sit in the warmth.”
“Mine's got a
full tank as well. Gets too bad, we can
sit in it.” I grasped his hand, glad I’d
gone back for this man. “Thanks.”
“Smoke,
before we’re in for the night?”
I stepped
outside with him. The air felt as if it
would shatter. Amazingly, the lights
were on over in the restaurant. The
sound of a diesel engine running echoed over the parking lot. Johnny laughed.
“Guess I know
where I’m heading, find me a booth, and get some shut eye.”
Not a bad
idea. At least warm--and hot food. He lit his Winston, I lit a Camel. We stood that way, two men, each scarred in
his own way by a shared experience that we hadn’t even realized was one. And Kat scarred by something, something
before her marriage.
“That little
woman,” Johnny said. “Ain’t none my
business. But everyone said she’s a free
spirit--born after her time, shoulda been her age in the 60’s.” His blue-eyed gaze flashed to me, then
away. “Take the right kinda man to make
that kinda woman into a wife, but if you got any smarts, you’ll give it a
shot. The way you look at her, and the
way she looks back, yeah, the way of things brought you together for a
reason.” He dropped the butt in the snow
and took sure steps across the ice covered parking lot.
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ReplyDeleteWinston and Camel cigarettes? Lmao, time warp for me! Thx again for sharing
ReplyDeleteLOL, the story is set in 1985, writing it felt a little like a itme warp for me as well. Funny how much you remember and how much you forget as time goes by, and what you forgot and what you remembered. I ended up doing a lot of research to make sure I had things right for the time period.
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I liked the blurb; it gave you a quick look at the story of the book, enough to make one want to read it :)
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