The admirals talking to ZQ at the hospital, as if he were on their level. ZQ’s harsh training he put the team through before their mission. His increased insistence on following the rules. One by one, things clicked. “You came back after you lost your foot because you knew the team was being sent...
He’d scrubbed them nearly raw in the shower. Someone knocked at his door. “Yeah.” He was in too foul a mood to disguise his annoyance. “Don’t ye bark at yer mum like that. I’ve only come to deliver a message. Una just called. She said she forgot to tell ye not to wear the potion if ye were going ...
“Okay. What are ye hiding from me? What do ye ken that I dinna?” Bryce’s bear made a blowing noise again and cast sad eyes on Effie, almost as if he were asking her fer help. “Sparrow, one of the last things Bryce’s father did before he died was to erase your memory. It’s a skill a bear shifter h...
Why else would she be in this unthinkable predicament? Sophie cast a look out of the corner of her eye to the man sitting beside her on the buckboard jostling over the rutted roads. Correction: Make that her husband. He’d barely spoken a word to her since he’d choked out “I do” to the parson. Her...
Tyler reined in Geronimo when he heard Zeus’s pounding hoof beats. Lacy was leaning over the pinto’s neck, her pleasure obvious by her expression. Her horse took the side of the bawling cattle opposite him. Just like he, she held a coiled loop of rope in her hand, ready to make short work of the ...
Where the heck was she? This didn’t smell like a hospital. The room was totally dark. Was she in the MRI tube? Shouldn’t there be some mechanical noise? A few men talked excitedly in another room, almost as if they were playing video games. One raspy voice was that of the nurse. Nothing made sens...
She told the librarian she’d already read it and had forgotten until she got partway into the first chapter. With her scarf off her head, the lady at the checkout desk was too busy checking out her stitches to pay much attention. She hurried over to the computers to see if there might be an email...