USA TODAY
bestselling author Delores Fossen does it again, with a romantic suspense book
that forces a US Marshal to confront his past—and the woman who might hold all
the answers…
Can he help her recover her memory before they are both killed?
The only person who knows who killed Marshal Jack Slater’s father is Caroline Moser. But the Texas profiler has no memory of the murder, her abduction…or Jack. And her witness-protection safe house has just been compromised. Now in Jack’s protective custody, Caroline must trust her ex to help her recall her past before a murderer steals their future.
Can he help her recover her memory before they are both killed?
The only person who knows who killed Marshal Jack Slater’s father is Caroline Moser. But the Texas profiler has no memory of the murder, her abduction…or Jack. And her witness-protection safe house has just been compromised. Now in Jack’s protective custody, Caroline must trust her ex to help her recall her past before a murderer steals their future.
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Excerpt,
HIS BRAND OF JUSTICE by Delores Fossen
“I
nearly got Lucille and you killed,” she said, and Caroline cursed her own
voice. It was shaking, too.
Jack
lifted an eyebrow. “Funny, I thought it was the shooter who nearly killed us.”
“The
shooter wouldn’t have been firing those bullets if it hadn’t been for me.” She
expected him to give her some sugarcoated answer, but she’d obviously forgotten
this was Jack.
“That’s
true.” With that hanging in the air, he waited a heartbeat. “And since I’d
rather not have any more attempted murders, that means you’re going to have to
let me help you.”
“You
mean I’m going to have to trust Kellan,” Caroline blurted out. She was feeling
a lot less shaky now.
Jack
shrugged, took his hand from his pocket so he could tap the badge on his belt.
“Every lawman in Texas isn’t tainted, and if you dig beneath all the anger,
fear and whatever else it is you’re feeling, you’ll remember that I’m the best
shot you’ve got at keeping us both alive.”
He
followed that too logical minilecture with a long stare. Jack was obviously
waiting for her to come to the only conclusion that she had right now.
“I’m not
going to trust your brother,” she insisted, but left the rest of it
unspoken—that she would trust Jack. Again, it was the only choice she had.
He
nodded as if they’d just hashed that out with a heated argument. “I’ll do
whatever it takes to keep you safe.” He paused. “Want me to take a bullet for
you to prove it?”
Jack
didn’t wink, but he might as well have, because he was obviously trying to
lighten things up. Trying to bring her back down and ease some of the still raw
adrenaline. It was working, sort of, since it was something he’d said to her in
jest when they’d been lovers. A way of letting her know that he cared that much
for her.
“No,”
she said, drawing out the one-word answer to emphasize it. There was a lot more
emotion in her voice than she wanted as she stared at him.
Thinking.
Remembering.
Yes,
definitely remembering.
That
helped more than his lame attempt at cop humor. His being there helped, too,
and despite everything she’d been through—or maybe because of it—Caroline
wanted to step right into his arms. Those strong arms with their toned muscles.
She wanted to feel the heat, and the comfort that she’d gotten there before.
Jack had tugged and pulled at her in a way that no man ever had before.
Or ever
would again, she was forced to admit to herself.
About Delores Fossen
USA Today bestselling author, Delores
Fossen, has sold over 70 novels with millions of copies of her books in print
worldwide. She's received the Booksellers' Best Award, the Romantic Times
Reviewers' Choice Award and was a finalist for the prestigious Rita ®. In
addition, she's had nearly a hundred short stories and articles published in
national magazines. You can contact the author through her webpage at www.deloresfossen.com
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