“Nothing?”
“The faery isn’t there.”
“How do you know?”
“I have a meter that measures ethereal energy. For the past two weeks it was registering a specific pattern, one I recognized as belonging to the faery.”
“And this morning, it’s not?”
“The faery moved on.” A slight breeze ruffled Nate’s hair. “So maybe it’s finally all over. Maybe I’ve finally paid what I owe.”
“I think you still have an outstanding debt.” Rachel stopped inches from Nate, reached up, and looped her arms around his neck. The move was brash and risky and made her heart beat faster. She liked the feeling. “I think you owe me.”
He arched a brow. “Is that right?”
“And I owe you someth—”
But she couldn’t finish her sentence because his lips were on hers, teasing, caressing, claiming, as sweet and loving as she could imagine.
And as much as they’d been through in the past hours, Rachel didn’t feel tired at all. She felt like beginning again, seeing what kind of life she and Nate might invent.
And writing her very own fairytale ending.
Ann Voss Peterson
Ann Voss Peterson is the author of over thirty novels and has millions of books in print all over the globe. Winner of the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award, Ann is known for her adrenaline-fueled thrillers and romantic suspense novels, including the Codename: Chandler spy thrillers she writes with J.A. Konrath and her own thriller series featuring small town Wisconsin police chief Val Ryker.
Visit her at annvosspeterson.com, Facebook, or Twitter.
Books by Ann Voss Peterson
Thrillers:
Val Ryker/David Lund Thrillers
Pushed Too Far
Burned Too Hot
Dead Too Soon (coming in 2015)
The School (novella, 12 Shades of Midnight Collection)
The Codename: Chandler Thrillers (written with J.A. Konrath)
Hit
Exposed
Naughty
Flee
Spree
Three
Romantic Suspense Novels:
His Witness, Her Child
Accessory To Marriage (Wedding Mission series)
Gypsy Magic (with Rebecca York and Patricia Rosemoor)
Claiming His Family
Incriminating Passion
Boys in Blue (with Rebecca York and Patricia Rosemoor)
Legally Binding
Desert Sons (with Rebecca York and Patricia Rosemoor)
Marital Privilege
Serial Bride (Wedding Mission series)
Evidence of Marriage (Wedding Mission series)
Vow to Protect (Wedding Mission series)
Critical Exposure
Special Assignment
Wyoming Manhunt
Christmas Awakening
Priceless Newborn Prince
Covert Cootchie-Cootchie-Coo
Rocky Mountain Fugitive
A Rancher’s Brand of Justice
A Cop in Her Stocking
Seized by the Sheik
Secret Protector
Short Stories:
Babe on Board (with J.A. Konrath)
Wild Night is Calling (with J.A. Konrath)
Table of Contents
The School
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
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