Thank
you, Jennifer, for letting me visit your blog today and for your support in
helping me spread the news about my new series called "Vegas"
~Welcome~
This is release day for the new romantic suspense
Vegas Series by Mimi Barbour
"Partners"
Book One in the new Romantic Suspense Vegas Series.
Riveting and
fast-paced, this short blockbuster will introduce you to Aurora Morelli and Kai
Lawson, the characters who are the stars of the Vegas Series.
In this novel, Aurora
is forced to accept one very difficult fact—she's lonesome for her partner
Debbie. An attack by a maniac put paid to their working together and Aurora is
pissed. She's out to get the madman who hurt her friend and God help anyone who
gets in her way. Therefore when a new
partner is forced on her, a bloody hotshot no less, the kind of dude she always
stays as far away from as possible, she's even more pissed.
This action–packed
short is humorous and will sweep you into the lives of these Las Vegas Detectives.
Short Excerpt – Chapter One
So this is what missing someone feels like. Kind of
sad and lonely mashed together, eating away at you all day long. Aurora had
never felt this way before; wouldn’t have given herself permission. This time
the annoying ache refused to stop.
She seldom allowed gloomy thoughts to grab hold and
mess with her head. But looking around the small office assigned to her and
another, seeing the empty desk, sorrow gnawed away until she gave in. Her old
partner Deb left behind a hollow emptiness, a sensation she wouldn’t ever admit
to anyone else. What did you expect? She chastised herself. Not having
the person you trust more than anyone else in the world backing you up sucked
big time.
Two weeks ago, life had been normal. She’d gone to
get a cup of the sludge they called coffee and left Debbie working on their
backlog of case files. Returning to their office, Lieutenant Cory Ashton had
caught up with her and they’d stepped into the room together, both coming to a
dead stop. Debbie, who’d lately taken to the layered look with sloppy clothes,
had bent over to pick something up from the floor and everything had draped
open— her pregnant belly had been revealed for all to see.
"Roll
the Dice" Book Two in the romantic
suspense Vegas Series.
“You shot me!” Aurora is incensed. Her new partner
shrugs and answers. “I saved your life.” From the very first page of this
riveting story, these two battle for supremacy in trying to catch the serial
rapist who ripped both their lives apart. With all her might, she fights the
attraction to his baby blues that tease and start her internal warning devices
humming. After all, her job is her life and determination has always been her
lifeline.
Kai has a mission of honor to undertake. The man
who’d raped his sister can’t be allowed to live. After all, she hadn’t! Revenge
fills his soul while visions of his new partner fills his heart. The sassy
woman rattles his calm, and he can’t keep his hands to himself. Doesn’t mean
she has the power to stop him from doing what has to be done.
“You shot me!”
“You told me to.”
“Dumb shit!” Aurora
pushed her new partner from hovering over her so she could sit up. “I didn't
mean it. I just wanted you to scare Rhondo.” She felt blood poring from the
wound on her arm and purposely kept her head turned away.
“Shooting you did
scare him. He let you go, didn't he?”
Aurora frowned at
him. Why did his voice have to sound so damn reasonable?
“What-ever!” She
hoped her scorn would get to him.
“Hey! I saw his eyes,
you didn’t. He had every intention of
using that knife. You know, the sharp one he had pressed against your throat.
If I’d shot him instead of you…” He shrugged.
Aurora shuddered,
fighting off nausea. She didn’t want to listen to reason. Being angry made the
situation a whole lot easier to deal with. Sarcasm, the best weapon she had in
a macho man's environment, replaced whining.
She glared at him and
saw his shapely eyebrows rise. The light of the bulb hanging from the ceiling
of the cruddy apartment haloed his head making the bare skin shine. “Just my frigging luck to end up with a
partner who thinks and looks like Bruce Willis."
Kai chuckled. Her
glower put a quick end to his merriment. He tried changing the subject with
sweet talk. "I've been told I have a nicely shaped head for being
bald."
"Sure and it
goes swell with your baby-blue eyes." She sneered on purpose. No way would
she admit he did look good.
His response was a
grunt of displeasure. “Are you always this crabby?”
Disbelief shone in
her amazed expression. “Not at all…” She said, disdain evident. “…only when
I’ve been shot.”
"Vegas"
Contest Rules
(Sept 15 – Sept 30th)
1. Read the book called "Roll the Dice".
2. Write an honest review for Amazon.
3. Send a copy of Amazon's notice to
mimibarbour@hotmail.com
Then…
you'll have a chance at being the lucky winner of a
$50
Amazon Gift Certificate
I've purposely set the price of the book down to $.99
for this contest and on Sept 19 & 20 it will be promoted in the
and will be …
…you guessed it!
FREE!!!
Good Luck!!!
Thanks for hosting me today, Jennifer. I really appreciate the support.
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