He’s a
man who has it all—but the lady he truly loves.
Mesa
Stone left Maple Ridge to get away from her best friend’s overbearing, headstrong
brother, Stetson McKane. She’s been head-over-heels in love with the
sexy-as-sin cowboy since she was a little girl. Now she’s back – and drinking
her sorrows away at the McKane’s annual BBQ – when she finds herself at the mercy
of Stetson’s archrival.
Stetson
knew Mesa was back in town, but what he didn’t expect was to find her in the
arms of his nemesis. He’s been rescuing his little sister’s best friend, Mesa,
since she was a tomboy in pigtails. To his amazement, the little girl who drove
him crazy is all grown up and Stetson finds he doesn’t have the will power to
resist her any longer.
Neither
can deny the heat rising between them, but between his ex who won’t take no for
an answer, and Blaine’s schemes of revenge, it seems Stetson and Mesa don’t
have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it work.
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true what people say about things being bigger in Texas—whether it’s a stubborn
male ego, a heart full of love…or the red-hot attraction between two people who belong together.
Matthew
Barrett is a SEAL combat leader who wears the Navy Cross, proof of his prowess
as a warrior, and an irrefutable symbol of his personal valor. Yet as adept as
he was in the art of war, Matthew was a failure at love and still haunted by
the long shadow of his father.
His
overdue break from near continuous combat tours is suddenly interrupted when
he’s injected into an international crisis in Central America and finds he’s
once again required to execute an impossible task that could very well be a one-way
trip.
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“This is what the truth is. Second Salvations murdered my parents, and I’m running away.” A single post over unregulated Internet channels. A sleeping society awakens to a chase, broadcast live on television screens all across the New United States of America... Rebecca and Daniel have never met. A fifteen-year-old preacher’s kid and a sixteen-year-old atheist outcast, they appear to have little in common. And yet they have both attracted the attention of a recruiter for Angel Island, where bad kids go to be remade—or destroyed. Agents of the all-powerful New America Unity Church will stop at nothing to get them. They’re building an army, a modern children’s crusade, in which Rebecca and Daniel may be just the kind of future leaders they need. If not, they might be just the kind of sacrifice necessary to keep the rest of the faithless in line.
Rebecca had known Miss
Marcy was there the whole time. She was careful not to betray that knowledge by
looking at her, though, even as she hit the bottom of the stairs and ran
straight in her direction. She had anticipated a host of enemies lying in wait for
her, in fact, and counted herself lucky when she could only make out one. The
bright white shirt and the camera-flash light of the videophone identified her
easily.
The
devil you know, she thought, steeling herself, telling
herself it could only be worse, going the other way. God only knew how many
people waited to spring on her around back. She didn’t think the cop could be
there, not so quickly, but there was no way to be certain.
She kept running, full
tilt, as though making for the woods. But she was ready all the while, and when
Miss Marcy came for her—thinking to roll her in one quick sucker-tackle, no
doubt—Rebecca lowered her head, let out a cry, and drove herself right into
Miss Marcy’s stomach.
They went to the ground
together, but Miss Marcy had already lost. Nary a sound—other than sucking
breath—escaped her lips as Rebecca pinned her arms with her knees and punched
her in the face. Once, twice, three times…
Then, scooting back
over her middle as Miss Marcy’s hands flew up to protect her face, Rebecca
punched her twice more, this time in the sternum—straight punches, not
uppercuts, leading with her two prominent knuckles, just as she’d been taught.
And finally she stood,
turning a full circle, suddenly panicking again. Surely there’d be an army coming for her by now. But there
wasn’t. Not yet.
Miss Marcy just lay
there, curled into a ball, gasping.
She saw the videophone
Miss Marcy had propped up on the windowsill.
I don’t have time for this, she thought, going to it anyway.
She saw her own face in
the screen as she drew near, growing bigger and bigger as she picked it up. It
was taking live video of her and feeding it to Miss Marcy’s personal Omni page.
The Views line at the bottom indicated there were currently six people
watching.
“My name is Rebecca
Riggs,” she said to the screen, and suddenly found tears were threatening
again. It annoyed her because she was not
a crier as a general rule. She fought them down. “This is what the truth is:
Second Salvations murdered my parents, and I’m running away.”
She couldn’t know, as
she tossed the phone aside and started running again, how famous those words
would ultimately become. It wasn’t her name at first—nor her accusation, nor
even her admission of deliberate flight—that would catch the attention of so
many people. But the video, still in record mode, was already being shared by
all six of the anonymous watchers on Miss Marcy’s Omniscience page.
By the time Rebecca
made it to the scooter between the road and the edge of the woods, one of the
watchers thought to add the caption: This
Is What the Truth Is.
Marcus Damanda lives in Woodbridge, Virginia with his cat, Shazam. At various times throughout his life, he played bass guitar for the garage heavy metal band Mother’s Day, wrote for The Dale City Messenger, and published editorials in The Potomac News and The Freelance Star. Currently, while not plotting his next foray into fictitious suburban mayhem, he spoils his nieces and nephews and teaches middle school English.
