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Friction by Sandra Brown
Published by: Grand Central
Publication date: August 18th 2015
Genres: Adult, Romance,
Synopsis:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.
A Texas Ranger, relegated to deskwork due to past recklessness, petitions to regain custody of his five-year-old daughter, and his case is assigned to a family court judge who is as attractive as she is ambitious. When a masked gunman barges in during the custody hearing with his sights on the judge, the Ranger reacts instinctually and goes after him. But authorities apprehend the wrong man, and the real gunman remains unknown, at large, and a threat. Will this take-charge lawman jeopardize his chances of custody by going after the would-be assassin? And will this unlikely pair be able to deny the forbidden attraction building between them?
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Excerpt
The back of the house was in complete
darkness. Holly climbed over the fence and then took a moment to catch
her breath, although her heart continued to thud so hard it was painful.
Cautiously she approached the back door. Through it, she could hear his
voice. At her soft knock, he stopped speaking immediately.
A few seconds later, he
opened the door. If he was shocked to see her, he didn’t show it.
His silhouette looked large and indomitable against the weak light from the ice
dispenser on the refrigerator door. So far as she could tell, it was the
only light on inside the house.
He brought his cell phone up
to his ear. “I’ll call you back.” He clicked off and lowered his
hand to his side. Otherwise he didn’t move. His eyes were too
hooded for her to gauge his reaction to seeing her on his doorstep.
She said, “You’re probably
surprised to see me here.”
“You could say. How’d
you get here?”
“I ran.”
“Ran?”
“Jogged. It’s only a
few miles.”
...he reached for her hand
and pulled her across the threshold. “Come in.”
***
Crawford could see well
enough in the dim kitchen to take a glass from the cabinet, fill it with tap
water, and hand it to Holly. “I’d offer you something else, but I don’t
want to turn on the lights and give the shutterbug an advantage.”
She had run from her house to
his wearing a pair of old jeans with holes in the knees. A white t-shirt
clung to her damp skin and outlined her bra. Her nipples made twin
impressions that had captured and held his attention.
“Crawford, did you hear what
I said?”. . .
He studied her shadowed face,
that mouth, those eyes, the locks of hair that had shaken loose from her messy
just-got-laid ponytail, and thought, Damn. “We’re in a dark, empty house.
I’ve got a king size bed and time to kill.”
“Till what?”
“Till the Houston office
calls me back. Or Neal shows up to arrest me. Let’s go in the
bedroom and take off all our clothes.”
“Crawford, this is serious.”
“I know,” he sighed. “I’m
trying to keep myself from strangling Neal for stupidity. I want to take
a sledgehammer to Chuck Otterman for lying. You can save two lives
by going to bed with me.”
AUTHOR BIO:
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including DEADLINE(2013), LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), & HELLO, DARKNESS (2003).
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program “PM Magazine.”
In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.
Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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