Title: Winterkill
Author: P.H. Turner
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Suspense
Synopsis
A
beautiful reporter and a charming rancher are caught in a web of mayhem,
murder…and lust.
Reporter
Sawyer Cahill returns home to Cheyenne, Wyoming to report for the local
station. But leaving behind the coverage of the gangland murders of San Antonio
only lands her smack in the middle of the ritualistic animal mutilations.
Harassed and threatened by the freak behind the bizarre murders, Sawyer plunges
into her investigation, reaping the attentions of two local ranchers.
Local
rancher, Jake Spooner, tangles with a tug of war relationship with Sawyer.
Tormented between his smoldering desire for Sawyer and his wish to keep her
safe, their passion flames in a mountain snow storm.
Excerpt
I met him for happy
hour at the Yella Feather bar over on the south side about 5:30 on a hot August
evening. He was dead by 6:15. Ours was a short relationship.
Lieutenant
Deaver was one of the old guys with the San Antonio PD. He strolled in with the
coroner, finding me where the first responder had put me. Over in a corner
holding up a yellowed wall that reeked with years of stale nicotine.
“You
okay?” Deaver asked.
“Yeah,
think so.” I took a weak swallow of warm Coke.
“What
happened?” He pulled out a rickety chair and sat down.
I
slumped into a seat beside him. “I didn’t see the killer. My back was to the
door when I heard the sound of a round chambered. Right in front me—Rodriguez
was talking to me—a small, round hole drilled into his forehead. I heard the
door bang shut and a car squeal off, but by the time I made it outside there
was nothing to see and only cordite to smell.”
I
looked around the bar, broken-down scarred tabletops, wobbly chairs, flaking
vinyl floors with duct tape covering the cracks. The stink of disinfectant and
stale grease mingled with gun smoke. Helluva place for a kid to die.
“How
long you known him, Cahill?” Deaver asked softly.
“I’d
say about forty-five minutes, give or take.”
He
scratched his left armpit, his face screwed into thought.
“What
were you doing with Rodriguez? Source of yours?”
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About the Author
Teaching
and shooting news and documentaries took me to work on the East and West
coasts, the Midwest and an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Born a fourth
generation Texan, I live in Austin with an energetic mutt that waits patiently
every day for me to come home and write.
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ReplyDeleteRomance Suspense/Mysteries is the perfect balance for a reader, excitement, brain teasers, trying to figure it out before you read it. And the romance is so much sweeter and passionate when you are living in the moment :)
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