Saturday Sample

Today's excerpt comes from Rest Thy Head, and all I can say is ouch.

She cupped his ruined cheek in her palm. “I love you so much.”

“Don’t.”

Peyton winced as if he had slapped her. He sounded so cold! “Don’t what? Don’t love you? It’s too late for that.”

“That’s your problem, isn’t it?” He stood up and glared at her. “Leave me alone. I don’t want to marry you or be a part of your life in any way. Is it possible that you still don’t understand what I’ve said? We don’t have any kind of a future together. In fact, I’d appreciate it if you’d leave Rest Thy Head as soon as possible.”

He stalked out of the office and slammed the door behind him.

Blurb:
Running away from a fiancé who betrayed her, Peyton O’Malley finds employment at a beautiful mountain inn called Rest Thy Head. She didn’t expect to live in the haunted room or to fall for the inn’s owner, a fire-scarred, war veteran who uses the inn to hide away from the world. She didn’t expect her sister to show up at Rest Thy Head either, much less her formidable mother. 

Now, thanks to the aid of a friendly ghost, Peyton has a shot at true love, and so does her sister Ashley, provided the guys cooperate of course! 

Beyond the Book: Rest Thy Head

Hello, readers, I'd like to introduce my latest hero to you. His name is Jake Douglas, and he and his brother Patrick currently operate a gorgeous Wyoming inn called Rest Thy Head. Don't freak, but most people say it's haunted.

Jake wasn't always an innkeeper. Until a few years ago he was a marine, but during his last tour of duty in Afghanistan, insurgents threw gas on him and set him on fire. He was severely burned on the left side.

After his rehab and plastic surgeries were finished, he went back home to Wyoming intending to marry his fiancee, Carolyn. She took a look at him and broke the engagement. Two weeks later she had another man's ring on her finger. Jake took it pretty bad and became a semi-hermit at Rest Thy Head.

And then Peyton O'Malley showed up.

Rest Thy Head is coming September 23 from Astraea Press.

Welcome Anne Patrick

 

 

 

BLURB:

 

Former combat medic Kory Wagner survived four war zones. Now she’s home and out of the Army for good and someone is trying to kill her in her own backyard. Just as disturbing is the handsome sheriff who’s on the case. Sheriff Sean Harding doesn’t quite know what to think of the decorated veteran that managed to outsmart an entire search party. What bothers him more is the body of a PI, whom she hired, was found dead in a building she owns. And Kory isn’t being very cooperative with helping him find the answers as to why someone would kill her sister and want her dead. Will he be able to keep her alive along enough to discover the truth?

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Sean followed the trail of blood to the back of the warehouse. She had definitely been hit -- question was how bad? Was she the one who called in the shooting? If so he didn't blame her for not sticking around, not when someone was trying to kill her. He was surprised she called the police at all.

 

He stepped out into the late afternoon sunlight. The last traces of blood were found halfway between the building and the edge of the woods. There wasn't any skid marks in the side parking lot indicating a hasty retreat, and there were no casings. Did the shooter have an accomplice waiting at the back door just in case, or did she manage to escape into the woods?

 

Deputy McKee joined Sean at the edge of the woods. "Find anything?"

 

"No. The blood trail ends over there. Judging from the distance between droplets she was running at a pretty good pace."

 

"There's only one car in the parking lot. Do you think they came together, or did she park back here?"

 

"They either came together or she came in soon after he did thru the front door. The trajectory of the bullets suggests she was near the front of the building when she was hit and exited through the back door."

 

"So she either managed to make it back to her car near the front of the building or she's on foot," the deputy said.

 

Sean looked toward the tree line. "If I were her and I had someone shooting at me I'd head for the woods. More places to hide than on a highway. Assemble a search team and have them start looking just in case. And notify the local hospital to be on the lookout for her. If she comes in I want her held for questioning."

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Anne Patrick is the author of more than a dozen novels of Romance, Mayhem & Faith, including the award winning and bestselling WOUNDED HEROES SERIES, FIRE AND ASH, and TIES THAT BIND. Her books have garnered four-star reviews from Romantic Times, 'Top Pick' and 'Best Book' honors from Night Owl Reviews and Long and Short of It Reviews, and Five-Heart reviews from The Romance Studio. When she isn't working on her next novel she enjoys spending time with family and friends, and traveling to foreign countries to experience new cultures and adventures. Born and raised in Oklahoma, she now makes her home in Kansas.

 

Contact links:

 

Website: http://www.annepatrickbooks.com

 

Blog: http://www.suspensebyanne.blogspot.com

 

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Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/author/annepatrick

 

Buy Links:

 

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Heroes-Book-One-ebook/dp/B0067DE258

 

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wounded-heroes-book-one-anne-patrick/1111903857

 

CBD: http://www.christianbook.com/wounded-heroes-book-kill-shot-ebook/anne-patrick/9781612521022/pd/24251EB

 

Publisher: http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/wounded-heroes-book-one-kill-shot-epub/

 

 

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