Cassie opened her eyes, squinting at first, and then suddenly sat up. She covered her breasts with the ivory, down comforter and glanced around a room that clearly wasn’t her own. “Jake… Jake?” Nothing; the only response was the echo of her own voice. She reached her hand to the side of the bed w...
No training or drills, no toilets to scrub, no trucks to wash, no schedule whatsoever. Well, that wasn’t entirely true—a ritual of sorts had been bred many moons ago. It involved warm doughnuts from Anderson’s Bakery and a rather competitive round of hoops to burn the plethora of fat and calories...
He’d been listening while his little sister repeated the story of her brutal attack for the third time to the detective in the room, each time his gut twisted, his hands clenched, and his heart ached. What kind of man attacked a helpless woman? A monster. A monster that sets fires and stops at no...