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RACE THE DARKNESS
Series: Fatal Dreams Series, Book 1
Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller
Cursed with a terrible gift...
Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn't have to question you-he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night-the voice of a woman begging him to save her.
A gift that threatens to engulf them
Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except...there is the man in her feverish dreams, the strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom and wholeness. And when he comes, if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on fulfilling a deadly prophecy.
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Her gaze locked with his—locked so hard the entire world vanished
and all that existed were her and him and his hand feeling the steady beat of
her heart. Whatever the fuck she was about to say, he was gonna believe her.
She could tell him he was a two-headed, purple squirrel, and he’d go out, find
a nut, and climb a tree.
“Xander. I vow to protect you from pain. I vow never to leave you
unless you want me to leave. I vow never to hurt you the way Gran hurt your
father. Because hurting you would be hurting myself. Your pain is my pain. And
my pain is yours. But together we are strong and invincible. Don’t you feel it
when we touch? It’s all I can feel. All I want to feel. You and me. Us.
Together.”
Her words did more than enter his ears; they melded into him as
bone-deep truth. He’d never do anything to hurt her and—damn—he trusted that
she wouldn’t hurt him. As sick as it sounded, maybe his faith in her was born
from the suffering she’d endured. She understood pain.
Understood the depth and damage pain caused in a way few others ever would.
That kind of knowledge made her incapable of wounding anyone else.
“Say something. You’re looking at me funny.” Her voice trembled just
a bit. He could practically hear her doubting whether she should’ve spoken the
words of her heart.
“What you said… Those words…” Christ. He didn’t have experience
talking about his feelings. “Everything.”
She cocked her head to the side, questions wrinkling her forehead.
He was screwing this up. “Your words mean everything to me.” He
could show her easier than he could tell her. He slid his hands up her neck,
framing her face, staring at her, absorbing every detail. “You’re my…” Fearless. He caught himself before he said the word. To base how
he felt on a story wasn’t real. She was real. And the emotions warming him were
real. “Everything.”
He lowered his mouth to hers. She tasted sweet, of cinnamon and
sugar, and for some reason, his heart ached with a fullness of feeling it had
never experienced before.
He scooped her up in his arms, cradling her to his chest, his mind
flashing back to the day he found her—and to holding her this same way. God,
she had weighed so little, had seemed so fragile, but she was strong. Stronger
than he’d ever be. Knowing what she’s gone through, what she’d survived—yeah. Strong was too weak a word to describe her.
He carried her up the stairs to his
bedroom, his mouth never leaving hers. With a gentleness born of reverence, he
settled her on the bed. He broke the kiss to stare at her once more. Her eyes were
closed, her face relaxed, her lips deliciously puffy and pink from a good
kissing. He fucking loved pink.
HUNT THE DAWN
Series: Fatal Dreams Series, Book 2 (stand alone)
Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller
Out of darkness and danger…
You can't hide your secrets from Lathan Montgomery-he can read your darkest memories. And while his special abilities are invaluable in the FBI's hunt for a serial killer, he has no way to avoid the pain that brings him. Until he is drawn to courageous, down-on-her-luck Evanee Brown and finds himself able to offer her something he's never offered another human being: himself.
Dawns a unique and powerful love
Nightmares are nothing new to Evanee Brown. But once she meets Lathan, they plummet into the realm of the macabre. Murder victims are reaching from beyond the grave to give Evanee evidence that could help Lathan bring a terrifying killer to justice. Together, they could forge an indomitable partnership to thwart violence, abuse, and death-if they survive the forces that seek to tear them apart.
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While he hauled his motorcycle onto the road, he didn’t look away
from her. She stood bereft in the middle of the pavement, staring out over the
pasture. Emotions infused the air around her. Shame. Hate. Embarrassment.
Sadness. Fear. Desperation.
He recognized that tangled combination of scents. Knew them
intimately. Knew the feeling of being hurt and vulnerable and powerless to stop
the pain. Knew how memories, like the one he witnessed, had left wounds on her
soul and Junior had just ripped off all the scabs.
She was raw, bleeding emotionally in front of him and yet holding it
together by a spider’s thread. He could see the effort in the way she stood
straight and stiff.
Fury simmered low in his gut. After he got her squared away, maybe
he’d pay a visit to Junior. Show the asshole what it felt like to be the
victim.
He walked the bike to her. After he straddled the seat, he held out
his hand to her. She grabbed him, her grip hungry.
“Climb on up.”
She tossed her leg over the seat, using his hand to balance her
weight.
He sat at the same time she did, her body settling against his back.
Holy Jesus. He couldn’t activate the ability to think—his brain
short-circuited from her nearness. Everything disappeared but the feeling of
her open thighs wrapped around his ass with nothing but a tiny pair of black
shorts and his jeans between them.
Her sweet musky scent, almost like honey, but better—way
better—folded around him like a celestial pair of wings. The scent of her
entered his nose, flowed into his lungs, then out to his extremities, spreading
a cooling wave of solace that he wanted to savor, but couldn’t. Not with her
perched behind him, waiting for him to drive down the road.
He placed her hand against his stomach, pressed it tightly to him.
His abdominal muscles twitched under her touch.
“Hold on.” He let go of her hand and she slid her other arm around
his waist. She pressed her front to his back, holding as tightly to his body as
she’d held his hand. She was a clingy little thing. Not that he minded. Her
touch felt like—what was the word he wanted to use—kismet. Exactly as he’d
always imagined a lover’s touch. Two pieces fitting perfectly together.
He kicked the machine in gear, trying to ease it forward instead of
his normal burst of speed. She rested her head on his spine, nestling her cheek
across the fabric of his shirt before settling.
His heart
grew, straining against his chest wall, threatening to come up his throat in a
shout of
absolute
ecstasy.
SAVING MERCY
Series: Fatal Truth Series, Book 1
Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller
He’s found her at last…
Cain Killion knows himself to be a damaged man. His only redeeming quality? The extrasensory connection to blood that he uses to catch killers. His latest case takes a macabre turn when he discovers a familiar and haunting symbol linking the crime to his horrific past—and the one woman who might understand what it means.
Only to lose her to a nightmare
Mercy Ledger is brave, resilient, beautiful—and in terrible danger. The moment Cain finds her the line between good and evil blurs and the only thing clear to them is that they belong together. Love is the antidote for blood—but is their bond strong enough to overcome the madness that stalks them?
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The
rain came down gray and thick as a shroud, blurring his vision of the world. He
flipped on the wipers and pulled out of the hospital parking lot onto the road.
Fat blobs of smacked the windshield loud as marbles being tossed against the
glass. Was that hail? As if it mattered. His car was trashed.
Cain
had covered the passenger seat and all Mac’s blood with a blanket he kept in
the trunk. Even though his view of all that crimson was blocked, his mind knew
it was there and his eyes kept wandering to the blanket, calling up the image
of the dark stickiness coating the seat and the floor. All that blood was
playing touchy-feely with his sanity. And he wasn’t in the mood for games.
He
drove past a gas station, a fast food restaurant, a person walking alongside
the road. His foot hit the brake before his brain had a chance to talk him out
of it.
Mercy.
Her
hair was slicked to her skull, her clothes—his clothes—were sucked to her body,
doing a shitty job of hiding her curves. At least the T-shirt she wore was black,
not white. He pulled over to the berm and watched her in the rearview mirror.
She
stopped walking, stared at the car—knew it was him—but didn’t move. Could he
blame her for not wanting to be around him after what he’d said to her? Not
really. And yet, he couldn’t leave her alone and walking in the rain with Payne
still out there. Not to mention that she didn’t have anyone or anywhere to go.
She
still hadn’t moved from her spot. He left the car running, opened his door and
got out. The rain slapped him—frigid, bordering on icy, soaking his clothes and
dripping in his eyes. The pressure of it hitting the wounds in his bicep and
shoulder made him wince. But that was all the attention he’d give to the pain.
“Get
in the car.” The words came out harsher than he’d intended.
She
crossed her arms in front of her chest, lifted her head, and somehow managed to
stare down her nose at him even though she was almost a foot shorter. “No.” She
said the word as if it didn’t matter that they were standing in the middle of a
downpour.
“Get
in the goddamned car.” This time the words came out loud and angry sounding.
Like that was going to win her over. What was his problem?
“Fuck
you.” She looked miserable—all wet and shivery and yet feisty and taking none
of his crap.
He
should soften his tone. He should try to be nicer. He should, but his inner
asshole seemed attracted to her inner bitch. “Where are you going? No where.
You don’t have anywhere to go. You don’t have any money. You don’t have
friends.” His voice softened and filled with some emotion he couldn’t name.
“You don’t have anyone looking out for you, caring for you, able to help you in
a pinch. You got no one.” He sucked in a breath and when he spoke next his
voice was soft and pleading. “Except me.”
The
moment he finished speaking he wanted to retract every goddamned one of those
words he’d spoken. “I’m…Shit…” He ran a hand through his soaking hair. “Goddamn
it. I’m a dick. Okay?” He softened his tone. “Now will you please get in the
car?”
Her
shoulders straightened, her chin lifted, and she walked forward without looking
at him. He expecting her to stomp past the car, but she yanked open the
passenger door and got in. Seconds passed where he just stood here, getting
even more wet, and staring at the back of her head poking above the headrest.
“Now
what?” He asked himself. Just what was he going to do with her? Drop her on
Dolan? Yes. No. Yes. No. No. No. The last time he tried dropping her on someone
she’d almost gotten hurt. If Mac hadn’t been able to keep her safe, he sure as
shit wasn’t going to trust Dolan with her.
He
got back in car. Every inch of him soaked. He brushed his hair back off his
face and wiped the water from his eyes.
She
stared out the passenger window, refusing to look at him. He reached over and
touched her shoulder. Underneath his hand, her body tensed, then trembled.
Shit. Was he scaring her?
He
wrenched his hand off her and wanted to use the damned thing to slap himself
around a little. Maybe then he’d get it through his stupid brain that she was
fucking frightened of him. Too many words flooded his mind and he didn’t know
which ones to say. The I’m-sorry ones. The I-won’t-hurt-you ones. The
I’m-an-asshole ones. The I-don’t-know-what-to-do ones.
She
turned to him. Rain slicked her cheeks. Or was that tears? Her beautiful eyes
were the color of tropical waters—deep and fathomless. He held up his hands in
a show of surrender and she flew across the console at him.
He
closed his eyes, braced for the blows, but none came.
Instead,
slender arms wrapped around him, her hair, cold and wet dripped against his
chest, but her cheek over his heart was warm—so warm.
Maybe
he’d had a stroke or something because this felt like she was hugging him. And
that couldn’t be. Could it? He opened his eyes and looked down at her.
Yep.
She was wound tight around the front of him. And suddenly his brain let him
feel the total sensation of it. Of being held tight as if he mattered to her.
He let his arms fall around her and squeezed, pressing her tighter to him.
Damn, this felt good. She felt good. It was oddly comforting to have her
clinging on to him so tight.
He
closed his eyes and memorized the pressure of her arms around him and the way
her hands pressed into his back. The way she felt in his arms, the subtle
ripple of her spine and ribs underneath his fingers, the way her skin felt warm
against his when every other part of him was cold.
If he’d
been given a Stop Time button. This
was the moment he would’ve used it. Here, holding her—the gentle lullaby of
rain playing in the background—was the only perfect moment of his entire life.
About Abbie Roads
Abbie Roads is a mental health counselor known for her blunt, honest style of therapy. By night she writes dark, emotional novels always giving her characters the happy ending she wishes for all her clients. SAVING MERCY is the first book in her new Fatal Truth Series of dark, gritty, romantic suspense with a psychological twist.
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