“I’ve been...sick,” I said, using my old standby excuse. “I’m sure you have,” she said, her words surprising me. “I’m sure you’ve been very, very sick.” I looked at her sharply. She had quit playing with the Band-Aid, which now dangled from her fing...
RAIN A Samantha Moon Story Acclaim for J.R. Rain: “Be prepared to lose sleep!” —James Rollins, international bestselling author of The Doomsday Key on J.R. Rain’s The Lost Ark “I love this!” —Piers Anthony, bestselling author of Xanth ...
Rain's Vampires 3 @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } "Ah, your profession hardens you to such matters." "And a very good thing that it does, or else, if all men were to look upon a dead body as something almost too dreadful to look upon, and by far too horrible to touc...
Now, with the Lyft driver waiting for me outside—I might have compelled him to wait for me, I didn’t, after all, want to lose him—I found my daughter in Sherbet’s office, sitting before his desk with her head buried in her arms, as a female officer stroked her hair. Sherbet himself sat back in hi...
Joe shrugged and nodded. Cole was starting to get a bad feeling about this. He barely had time to register that neither man had any red in their eyes whatsoever when Joe Carter ordered him to put his head down. Immediately, Cole felt Carter’s heavy boot on his neck. At the...
My first waking impression was the smell of something burnt mixed with my previous stench when I raised my hand to shield the brightness hurting my eyes. Lying on my back in the sand, I heard the ocean’s waves beyond my head, maybe twenty feet away. “Nick...can you hear me...
The watchmen had AK-47s. Serious stuff. I was weaponless, other than a curved jambiya I’d found among the bleached-white bones of a forgotten trader. I found these remains one night while pitching my tent and prudently kept the discovery a secret. Now, I wore the traditional curved short blade at...
But I have a hard time believing you could ever be afraid. You would be surprised, Sam. For instance, I’m afraid now. I caught his meaning. You are afraid that you might never come back. Yes, Sam. How ...
RAIN Acclaim for the novels of J.R. Rain: “Be prepared to lose sleep!”—James Rollins, international bestselling author of The Doomsday Key “I love this!”—Piers Anthony, bestselling author of Xanth “Dark Horse is the best book I’ve read in a long time!”—Gemma Halliday, award-winning author of Sp...
It was shortly after breakfast, and all of us moved in slow motion. Two cups of Ishi’s bitter coffee weren’t enough to override the oppressive heat and lack of sleep. The sun’s rays baked the sand around us, and there would be no relief until late afternoon, when the outcropping would provide par...
Give me the dope.”“Ugh.”“Ugh what?” I said.“Doesn’t sound right coming from you. Sounds too mom-ish.”“Well, I am a mom. Now tell me what you know or I’ll shove my mommy sneaker up your ass.”“Now that’s the Samantha Moon that I remember.”“Chad...”“Right. Fine. Look, some of this isn’t easy to talk...