He's sexy and he knows it...and he's never been one to run from trouble.
She's way over her head, trapped on an island, and her only hope is a boat captain who's dangerous in his own right.
An excerpt of Duplicity, a romantic suspense novel, where no one is as they seem.
"Do
you have anything stronger than beer? I feel like getting drunk," she said
so softly he wondered if she'd said anything at all. "I know you don't
know me and probably think I'm some kind of criminal, but I found out some
horrible things today about people I trusted and, even though I know what's
right, it's much more complicated than that."
He
chewed his fish without looking at her while weighing what she'd confessed.
"I'm just a boat captain who—"
"Spike
said you're a lot more than that," she whispered.
He
finished his beer before releasing a long sigh. "I'm no one's hero, if
that's what you're thinking. I'm just the local dive master who runs a one-boat
operation with his long time buddy. No more, no less. I don't want to hear your secrets or save you if you fall overboard."
"So you'd let me drown?" Her thigh
bumped his beneath the table as she faced him. The sea breeze tossed her hair
across her face like a veil. She arched an eyebrow, smile growing.
"Most likely." He shrugged and moved
away from the table. "You paid me in cash, after all, so there's no real
evidence you were ever on board, no liability on my part."
Her
laughter behind him stirred something in his chest that made him curse as he
opened the liquor cabinet. Oh, she was trouble with a capital T, but not
because of what she'd left on the island. He took a swig straight from the
bottle before grabbing two glasses and a couple of sodas. Fifty
thousand US Dollars wouldn't be enough to compensate for the kind of trouble he
suspected he was about to unleash. Oh,
what the hell? He'd been a bit bored lately.
From the back cover...
Nothing bad happens in paradise...or does it?
Lexi Dubois is in trouble. On Grand Cayman for
business, she discovers the company she's been working for is funding a human
trafficking ring—and the money trail leads back to her. Scared for her life,
she charters a boat for a week to hide from the men on the small island who
want her dead and to buy time to find enough evidence to take them down. The
last thing she expects—or wants—is a torrid affair with the hot captain and
dive master.
Larry Gibbon has been running a charter dive
boat operation in Grand Cayman for years. He's seen it all—and done his share
of creating havoc. But when a mysterious woman charters his boat for a
week—alone—he has no idea what trouble she's bringing aboard.
The ocean is vast and unforgiving, but will Larry's knowledge of the Cayman
Islands and Lexi's relentless determination to survive be enough to save them?
**The Wanderlust Series
consists of stand-alone adventure romance novels. Occasionally, characters from
previous novels may make a cameo, but each story truly does stand on its own
merits.
Escape to Grand Cayman with the sexy scoundrel Captain Larry at the helm!
2 comments:
I'm dying to finfd out what he's learned. Hopefully his self esteem will get a boost soon too. Great snippet
Great Snippet. This sounds like a book I'd love to get lost in.
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