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The sequel, FATAL TARGET, is in progress and should be available either in August or early fall at the latest.
For more adventures from the crew at J. Carter & Associates, check out the novella AGAINST THE CLOCK and the script version which is on my website for free. The novella is $0.99 and is available through all major e-book outlets including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
Hopefully, this will keep readers busy while I work on STEAL YOU AWAY (cover art coming soon!) and TRUST NO ONE.
And here's an exclusive excerpt from FATAL TARGET:
May 5th,
2007
“..Happy
birthday to you!” sang the gathered group. There were a dozen people crowded
into the small apartment’s living room. At the center of the commotion, her
face flushed red from embarrassment, sat Katherine. Beside her, his crooked
smile wide, sat her boyfriend and confidante.
Candles
glowed in the darkened room. She took a deep breath and blew. The flames
flickered out, smoke trailing, as their friends clapped.
“I’m
gonna kill you for this,” she hissed through clenched teeth at Aidan.
“You
know you love it.”
An
ear-piercing whistle cut through the noise. “Stop making faces, Kat, and let’s
cut that damn cake. I’m starving.”
The overhead
lights flipped on with a buzz. She rolled her ice blue eyes at the voice. Marc
Pearson leaned against a wall, quite at home, with a beer in his hand. As
usual, he wore all black, the shirt tight-fitted over well-defined muscles.
“Just
for that, you don’t get a piece.”
He
pouted. “That’s harsh.”
“Suck
it up, Pearson.”
Katherine
stood up, her legs draped in dark denim. Aidan followed her lead, a hand
resting against her waist, as he guided her through the small crowd.
In the
kitchen, her cake waited, devoid of candles, with a knife. A stack of small
paper plates and forks lay beside it on the countertop. Aidan took up the
knife, cutting deftly through the sheet cake.
“Which
piece do you want, babe?” he asked.
“Give
me a flower.”
He
nodded, cutting out a large blue flower on a corner for her. With the birthday
girl’s piece secured, he sliced a neat grid through the cake, methodically
cutting pieces. Kat helped transfer the cake to plates, passing them and forks
around their friends.
Once
the majority of the cake was gone, Kat took her piece. She devoured the frosted
flower first, blue icing tinting her lips. She didn’t care as she munched on
the moist yellow cake. Aidan leaned against the counter beside her, a narrow
slice in his hands.
“Good
cake?”
“Delicious,”
she mumbled, her mouth full.
Aidan
grinned. “Happy Birthday, Katy. I love you.”
“Love
you too.”
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