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Shadows
by Stella Barcelona
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BLURB:
A
cryptic, urgent text message turns the peaceful life Skye Barrows has created
for herself and her sister into chaos. She must follow her father’s
instructions to the letter, but Sebastian Connelly is blocking her way. Telling
Sebastian what she must do is not an option.
What He
Doesn’t Know Will Get Them All Killed
When a
prison break in the midst of a security system upgrade threatens to destroy the
reputation of Sebastian’s company, Black Raven Private Security Contractors, he
goes on the hunt for escaped prisoner Richard Barrows – a delusional and
paranoid computer software genius.
Sebastian’s
mission: find Richard Barrows and return him to prison, but stonewalled by
Skye, who refuses to give him answers, and with the added complication of her
special needs sister, Sebastian finds himself always a step or two behind
vicious killers.
Nothing
About This Case is Normal
For
Sebastian, it should be simple, but this case will test him in ways he never
imagined. As probing interrogation becomes urgent protection, the search for
Barrows forces Sebastian and Skye into a murky world of shadows and illusions.
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EXCERPTS (Exclusive
Excerpt):
Pretending to be prison guards, yet not allowing
him to know where they were taking him, had been leading indicators of a
problem. The lab where they ordered him to work was exactly the type of place
that made him feel safe and comfortable. It was too perfect, though. The tech
was too state-of-the-art, the lighting at exactly his specified lumens, the
temperature at precisely his preferred working temperature of sixty-two
degrees. They’d copied his personal work environment at BY Laboratories, right
down to the ergonomic keyboard he used with an integrated palm rest and a
footrest under his desk at precisely his favored height.
Peripherally he was aware of other technicians and
analysts working in the lab. From their sweat despite the cool temperature,
hair-pulling frustration, pacing when they weren’t typing, and furtive glances
at him, he deduced that their frustration level matched his fear. If their
extreme dedication to work wasn’t odd enough, the six black-clad men with
weapons, strategically positioned around the room, confirmed that this was no
legitimate endeavor. There was one piece of good news, and for that he was
elated. My encryption program is working. These men were running state of the
art decryption programs and they hadn’t broken through the bag of tricks he’d
employed in protecting Shadow Technology.
A man approached and stood at his side. Richard
glanced into the lead analyst’s light brown eyes. The man pushed his
horn-rimmed glasses up his nose. “You haven’t typed anything in ten minutes.”
“I have to think it through. This takes time,” he
lied. Richard knew the commands the characters prompted. What was taking so
long was thinking through an alternate command that would prompt an invisible
data purge, because his gut told him his captors weren’t the government agents
they claimed to be. For that reason, he wasn’t giving them a damn thing. What
he could destroy, he would.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Stella Barcelona has always had an
active imagination, a tendency to daydream, and a passion for reading romance,
mysteries, and thrillers. She has
found an outlet for all of these aspects of herself by writing romantic
thrillers.
In her day-to-day life, Stella is a
lawyer and works for a court in New Orleans. She lives minutes from the French
Quarter, with her husband of seventeen years and two adorable papillons who
believe they are princesses. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and
the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Her first
novel, DECEIVED, was inspired by New Orleans, its unique citizens, and the
city’s World War II-era history.
Her third novel, JIGSAW, a Black Raven
novel, will be released in 2016.
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