A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
by Eileen
Dreyer writing as Kathleen Korbell
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GENRE: Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
J.P. O’Neill is in the fight of his life. A legendary agent with
the DEA, he’s uncovered a conspiracy in his own agency. The only problem is
he’s been arrested for the murder of his partner. If he goes to jail, he dies.
There’s only one solution—escape. The only way to do that is to
kidnap his defense attorney. Lauren Taylor is a high-priced attorney doing a
favor for a friend. Suddenly she finds herself on the run with the most
dangerous man she’s ever met. Will she survive with her heart intact?
“Ms. Korbel generates an incredible chemistry between her two
immensely appealing lovers that will set your heart on fire.” ~ RT Booklovers
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EXCERPT
The
first time she saw him, he was unkempt, unwashed and unshaven. And that was
after they’d cleaned him up.
“It
says here you were a DEA agent,” Lauren mused, her eyes down on the file she’d
been handed rather than the bedraggled man who sat across the table from her.
“I’m
still a DEA agent,” he allowed, his voice gravelly with weariness, his hands
clenched around a foam coffee cup.
He’d
already finished the coffee. Now he was tearing little strips off the rim with
his fingers, fingers that were so grimy that Lauren had thought twice about
shaking his hand.
She
knew his story was that he’d been undercover as a street person, but she wasn’t
sure he’d had to go to quite the lengths he had. James O’Neill smelled like a
cannery and looked like the bottom of an oil drum. His layered clothes were
torn and filthy, his beard gnarled and unruly, a salt and pepper variation on
the nondescript hair that straggled down the back of his neck from beneath a
knit cap. The typical uniform of any of the thousands of lost men who wandered
the streets and slept in parks and under bridges.
But
that wasn’t what kept Lauren from facing him. She’d sat across from her share of
derelicts. After all, she’d been with the public defender’s office before
joining the firm of Paxton, Bryant and Filmore. She knew how to survive a
pungent odor or two and didn’t think twice about the type of grime in which a
man chose to coat himself.
What
Lauren couldn’t quite face were James O’Neill’s eyes.
They’d
been the first thing she’d noticed, the single startling contrast to the rest
of the picture that made her believe that O’Neill had been, at least until a
month earlier, one of the DEA’s top agents. Brilliant, according to the records
she’d scanned. Canny, daring, a risk taker of the first order who’d netted some
of the top players in the game by running some of the most unbelievable stings
in the history of the agency. A legend in his own time.
The
file before her also said that sometime around dawn the man who sat before her
had shot down his ex-partner in cold blood in a public park rather than be
hauled in on drug charges.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
New York Times bestselling, RWA Hall of Fame author Eileen Dreyer
has published 31 romance novels in most genres, 8 medicalforensic suspenses,
and 10 short stories.
2015 sees Eileen enjoying critical acclaim for her foray into
historical romance, the Drake’s Rakes series, which Eileen labels as Regency
Romantic Adventure that follows a group of Regency aristocrats who are willing
to sacrifice everything to keep their country safe. She is also working on her
first nonfiction book, TRAVELS WITH DAVE, about a journey she's been taking
with a friend's ashes.
A retired trauma nurse, Eileen lives in her native St. Louis with
her husband, children, and
large and noisy Irish family, of which she is the reluctant
matriarch. She has animals but refuses to subject them to the limelight.
Website:
http://eileendreyer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EileenDreyer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eileendreyer
Amazon buy link:
https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Wild-Side-Korbel-Classics-ebook/dp/B079Y9PB9D/ref=sr_1_1
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteLove the excerpt. Look forward to reading the book. Also great to have you here today.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good read.
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