Montana Fire (38 page)
Authors: Vella Day
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Genre Fiction, #Medical, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Thrillers
She shook her head. “No.”
“I’ll try to track him down. I liked the guy.”
“Me, too. I hope he’s okay, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s somewhere in Florida.”
“I hope you’re right.” Vic shoved his hands in his pocket. “Since I’ll be staying,
I’ll be looking for a house. If you hear of anything, let me know.”
“I might know of a place.” She mentioned she was renting her house, but the tenants
had only signed a six-month lease. “It’s small, but it’s in good shape. We’ll have
to talk.”
“Sounds promising.” He touched her arm. “I won’t keep you, but I’m thrilled to see
you and Max together.
Cade glanced down at his wife with total love. “Is it time?”
“Now that the new lovebirds have arrived it is.”
Jamie was confused. “What are you talking about?”
“Come back outside. We have an announcement to make.” Amber smiled, but Jamie couldn’t
get a read on her.
Jamie and Max followed them out with Vic right behind them. Country music was playing
over the speakers, and Stone was at the grill cooking. He looked up, grinned, and
turned down the volume.
Cade shouted for everyone to listen up. Thirty seconds later the crowd finally quieted.
Amber stepped next to Cade. Stone lifted the burgers off the grill, placed them on
a plate, and strode over to them. Cade and Stone bordered Amber.
“I’d like to make an announcement everyone,” Amber said. “We want our friends to be
the first to know that we are expecting a child.”
The hoots and hollers drowned out any chance of Amber continuing. Finally, they calmed.
“We’re due next March, so let’s all celebrate!”
The music sprang up and Max turned to her. “I think it’s time we talked about kids.”
Jamie reached out to steady herself on his arm. They’d fallen head over heels in love
in the last half-year or so, and she’d never been happier, but she’d never had the
courage to push Max into wanting to start a family. For her, having children would
be a dream come true.
“Okay.”
He glanced to the sky and rolled his eyes as if he was the dumbest man alive. “I guess
I should have done things in order.” Max got down on his knee and held out a ring.
It was as if the sea had parted. The music muted and the crowd gathered. “Will you,
Jamie Henderson, marry me?”
Tears clogged her throat. She couldn’t even say the word, yes. All she could do was
nod. Max stood and slipped the ring on her finger. It was a beautiful diamond, with
two smaller diamonds on each side of the main one. “It’s incredible.”
Max gathered her in his arms. “Not half as incredible as you.”
She sniffled, and he produced a white handkerchief from his pocket. “I figured you’d
need this.”
Jamie swatted his arm. “Funny, funny.”
“So how many?”
Her mind wasn’t thinking straight. “How many what?”
“Kids, silly.”
“One girl and one boy. For starters.”
He laughed. “That works for me. I guess I’ll have to keep in shape so I can walk my
daughter down the aisle.”
Jamie probably shouldn’t have kidded him about the age difference. “You better.”
A long line of their friends congratulated them. Their song came on.
Max held out his hand. “I know how much you love the song, Montana Fire, so I asked
Cade to play it. Let’s dance.”
Jamie stepped into his arms and placed her face against his chest. “I love you, Max
Gruden.”
He tilted up her face. “I love you more.”
They probably would spend the next fifty years competing. Oh, what a fantastic fifty
years it was going to be.
The End
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NOTE: These THREE novellas (50K each) were previously released as single titles.
GENRE: Paranormal Werewolf Romance, Paranormal Erotica, Paranormal Menage (MFM)
She failed to stop him. Now he’s coming after her.
Liz Wharton has one goal—to kill the man who raped her mother. Had she known Harvey
Couch was a werewolf, she never would have tried to take him on by herself.
Determined to put an end to the pest bent on revenge, Harvey sends his goons after
her. When two wolves attack her, Liz is sure she’s hallucinating. Good thing Trax
Field is there to stop them.
Trax and Dante Field, members of the Pack, have devoted their lives to stopping bad
shifters like Harvey Couch. Saving Liz would have been just an ordinary day, but when
Trax finds her huddled in an alley, bruised and shaken, he’s convinced she’s his mate.
To keep her safe, Trax and Dante hold her captive in their loft apartment. When they
aren’t searching for Couch, Trax and his brother spend the night training their future
mate in the art of bondage and sensual pleasures. How will they be able to convert
her into embracing not only their lifestyle but also their animalistic side?
She saw the killer. Now he wants her dead
.
Realtor Chelsea Wilson enters a vacant home she wants to show and comes face-to-face
with a dead man—and a killer. Freaked out, she runs, but the killer nabs her.
Ricardo Mendez, a werewolf who runs a drug operation, doesn’t need a witness to the
murder. He viciously attacks her, but the dead man’s brother, werewolf Kurt Wendlick
and his Pack partner, Drake Stanton stop the final assault.
When Kurt and Drake save Chelsea, they’re certain she’s their mate and will do anything
to keep her safe. Her loving ways puts Kurt in a tailspin. He wants to claim her,
but first he needs to avenge his brother’s murder.
What can Chelsea do to help the tormented man? Will the three ever explore the world
of BSDM together?
She’s sold into slavery. Now she’s on the run
.
All Elena Sanchez wanted was to get on the plane to Costa Rica and visit her parents.
When the authorities tell her they need to search her, she finds herself drugged and
caged by a sadistic bastard who plans to sell her virginity to the highest bidder.
Two Pack members, Clay Demmers and Dirk Tilton, learn that Elena, Harvey Couch’s former
secretary, is a victim of a human trafficking scheme. They go undercover and bid for
her. As soon as they see her, they realize she’s their mate. More determined than
ever to save her, they buy her, but at what cost?
Elena doesn’t know who to trust. They inform her they’re werewolves, but is that any
better than being sold into slavery to humans? With care, Clay and Dirk teach her
how to embrace her submissive ways. The problem is this good Catholic girl likes it.
Will the guilt from her upbringing prevent her from having the best ménage relationship
possible or can she find a way to have both?
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This adult contemporary romance contains explicit sexual content,
graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable (double
penetration, ménage, violence). Not intended for those under the age of 18.
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GENRE: Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Serial killer
When loner homicide detective, Hunter Markum, finds the skeletons of four women in
a mass grave just outside Tampa, Florida, he’s distraught as hell. It leaves a bitter
taste in his mouth, as it’s a harsh reminder of his own sister’s unsolved murder.
For the first time in his career, the usually detached Hunter feels a more personal
connection to this case, and agrees to team up with Dr. Kerry Herlihy, a forensic
anthropologist, in the hopes she can decipher the buried bones. Her compassion for
these cold case victims draws her to him.
Kerry too finds Hunter’s strong family attachment appealing, as her family abandoned
her as a child, but she tamps down her desires. The case must come first.
Against their will, the attraction ignites, and their quest to find the killer soon
reveals the identities of the victims and the chilling fact that each woman had been
abused. When Kerry’s work throws her directly in the killer’s path, Hunter realizes
how much she’s come to mean to him. In a race against the clock, Hunter must apprehend
the murderer if he hopes to save the woman he loves once she’s buried alive.
When rookie Tampa Police Officer, Jenna Holliday, goes undercover at a local occult
store to investigate a rash of grave robberies, she never expects to become the victim
of a black magic death spell.
Dr. Sam Bonita, a forensic anthropologist, in search of answers regarding a headless
body, visits the store where Jenna works and is enchanted by her.
Believing Sam holds the key to her case, Jenna tries to get close to him. When his
house is burned to the ground, with both of them inside, she’s unsure if her cover
has been blown or if Sam is the object of some deranged killer.
Only after a series of murders, and a few death threats, do Jenna and Sam suspect
a serial killer is on the loose and after both of them.
When forensic anthropologist, Dr. Lara Romano, first examines the exhumed skeletons
of two Native American men buried in Tampa, she has no idea she’s caught the eye of
a serial killer who’s intent on dipping her in plaster and covering her in hot wax
to complete a twisted ode to his Seminole mother.
Isolated by her profound hearing loss she suffered as a child, Lara jumps at the chance
to work in the field and prove she’s as competent as any hearing scientist. Not even
the easy-on-the-eyes cop bucking to work with her will distract her from her goal.
Missing Persons detective, Jake Kinsey, needs a high profile case to land him a job
in Homicide. Though he suspects the attractive rookie scientist may hinder his success,
he believes the cadavers in Lara’s investigation are linked to his current case—eight
missing men, all Native Americans, believed to be dead.
What Jake and Lara don’t realize is that the missing bodies have been left in plain
sight as part of a tableau constructed by the madman who plans to use Lara and Jake
for his final scene.
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GENRE: Medical Romance, Contemporary Western Romance, Erotica ménage romance, (MFM)
