Casket Girl
by Maggie Mae
Gallagher
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GENRE: Paranormal
Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
All he
wants is to find a killer...
FBI
Special Agent Josh Blake has seen some bizarre cases in his day. His latest
case is one for the record books. He has multiple homicides, corpses drained of
every ounce of blood, and no suspects. When rumors surface that the French
Quarter may be hiding an insidious monster bent on drenching the streets in
dead bodies, he must suspend logic and place his trust in the mystical.
She wants
a fresh start...
Isabelle
Toussánt left her family home in the bayou five year ago, cutting all ties with
her abusive whiskey swilling stepfather, to forge a new life in the French
Quarter. Now a successful business owner of Madam Toussánt’s Mystical Gifts in
Jackson Square, and a Seer with voodoo roots. The foundation of her new life
shatters when one of her employee’s winds up dead and she is dragged into a
deadly game where she becomes the target of a serial killer.
A passion
neither expected...
Determined
to stop the brutal slayings, Josh must rely on the beautiful Isabelle who makes
him question everything he has ever known about life and death all while
surrendering to a desire hotter than a Bayou night. When Isabelle disappears
without a trace, with tourists flocking to the party capital for Halloween, and
the body count continues to mount, Josh will be forced to push beyond the
boundaries of what he thinks is possible and rescue the woman he loves before
it's too late.
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EXCERPT
“Miss Toussánt.” Captain Tremayne addressed her
above the din and chaos.
She swung around, her long dark hair, the silky
wave of it, shimmering and rippling as she faced the captain. Josh took one
look at Miss Isabelle Toussánt and felt like a thoroughbred had just kicked him
in the stomach.
She was exotic, with caramel skin and looking taut
and lean in her formfitting tank that displayed delicate arms. He sucked in a
sharp breath when she glanced at the captain. Cat eyes. The mahogany color
reminded Josh of his chestnut mare as a child, Daisy. They were framed by black
brows. One of them was currently raised in his direction as she spoke to the
captain.
“Yes, Captain Tremayne? Can I interest you in a cup
of coffee?” Her voice reminded him of a shot of smooth, single malt whiskey.
“Miss Toussánt, this is Agent Josh Blake with the
FBI. He has some questions, if you’re up for them.”
A wounded shadow passed through her magnetic eyes
for a moment before she shifted her gaze toward him. The unabridged effect of
her stare was electric and compelling, until he found himself immersed in her
eyes. Unexpected lust zinged along his spine, not that he would give in to the
temptation she presented, but his body resonated with the siren’s call her body
echoed.
“Agent, can I interest you in some coffee?” She
held up a glass carafe of steaming brew, already half empty.
“Not right now, Miss Toussánt. Thank you for the
offer, though,” he murmured gently but firmly. It smelled like heaven, but he
didn’t want to coddle her. She needed to understand he was in charge and would
dig into her background no matter how sweetly her hips swished as she walked.
“Please call me Isabelle,” she offered with a
slight smile, but it didn’t spread to her eyes. No amount of coffee or alcohol
would erase the vision of death. He knew what that first time was like, though,
the horror of it, the way it twisted your insides. Seeing for the first time
how fragile life truly was made you face your own mortality. And, more
important, you began to understand that some individuals just wanted to watch
the world burn.
“Is there somewhere we can talk privately?” he
asked, assessing her response, both verbal and non-verbal, ignoring the intense
desire churning in his gut as he studied her. If there was one thing Miss
Toussánt was, it was off-limits. It didn’t matter how long it had been since
he’d done the horizontal tango. If there was one thing he was strictly by the
book on, it was that he never blurred the lines in a case. The evidence either
convicted a person or set them free. As it was, she was a witness to a horrific
murder, possibly more.
There was something off about her that he couldn’t
quite put his finger on. The way her eyes darted nervously around, and she kept
wetting her pouty bottom lip. It could be signs of trauma and shock from
discovering the body, or it could be she was hiding something. Perhaps she’d
witnessed the incident and feared the killer would come back for her if he
knew.
“Certainly, follow me.” Isabelle returned the
carafe to the coffeemaker, wiped her palms along her skirt and nodded toward a
doorway in the far corner.
He would have followed her into hell if it meant
listening to her sultry voice some more and siphoning whatever information she
had on this case.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and
reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if
only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the
romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never
did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St.
Louis with an M.A. in History.
Maggie
is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres.
She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers. A total geek at her
core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or
spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two
furry felines.
Visit
her website here:
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