Keeping Desiree (The Others Book 3)
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No matter how futile it felt.
As her foot lifted, a sharp wind whipped passed her, blowing her long ponytail in the direction of the hunter.
Even from a distance, she sensed his body still.
He started to turn. His body hadn’t completed the full movement before he was running, coiling to jump from his roof to the roof of the parking garage between them.
Oh, fuck. No.
Running hard to the edge, Harmony leapt over the side in desperation, uncaring if there was anything for her to grab. The fire escape of the building next door was there, and she used it to reach the drainpipe.
On the ground, she didn’t waste a second to check the location of her pursuer. Mentally calculating the layout of the city streets, she put all her resources into her legs.
They’d never failed her before and she had to trust they would do their best to save her now.
One block, two, and she warmed to the pace. Relaxing into the movement, she allowed her body to do something it loved.
She shoved the danger from her mind and focused on how many times she’d outrun people bigger and stronger.
With a trace of a smile, she recalled their expressions of shock and frustration every time it happened.
Time and time again, her body accomplished what Harmony thought impossible. Despite exhaustion, malnourishment, lack of clean water, and a never-ending chase, she was strong.
Days before the new hunter joined the chase, she was cornered by two others. Beaten and nearly raped, she bit and clawed her way to freedom. Even then, her body hadn’t failed her.
Malnourished, unable to seek medical attention, and without the resources to tend herself, the worst wounds she’d sustained that night still hadn’t healed.
She’d been running for almost four years and she questioned why the man continued to pursue her. He didn’t want her and there was no one left to stand for the Kassis sisters.
Why wouldn’t he let her go and forget her existence? Had she done something to cause his fury? Had she unknowingly offended him?
There was little time to question the men intent on capturing, raping, and killing her. She usually slayed them and kept running.
Above and behind, something heavy hit the roof of a building she passed in a blur.
Unfamiliar terror threatened to rise up and strangle her. She thought she heard her name, but the blood pounded too loudly in her ears to be certain.
Harmony was too tired for a distance chase and her hip hurt so fucking bad. Her only chance of survival was to put miles between herself and the hunter.
Otherwise, this time they’d catch her, beat her, and finish her rape before taking her life. Another nameless casualty in a never-ending war she did not understand.
Please. Someone help me. Please.
Crush down the fear.
Ignore the pain.
Don’t fucking think.
Just run.
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FINDING HOPE EXCERPT
The Others – Book Two
Hope Kassis could smell her twin sister and didn’t understand what that meant.
At first, she wondered if the Montana Wolves chasing them for fucking years had caught Harmony and were using her as bait to catch Hope.
As the possibility entered her mind, she laughed. No Were would ever best Harmony. No fucking way.
Then she received confirmation that her twin was safely with her Mates in Texas Pack.
There was no time now to solve the mystery. There was a lot to do and very few hours to do it.
At this moment, Ryan had to come first. She had to rescue him before he succumbed to his injuries.
Everything depended on getting him to safety.
When one of the human servants loyal to her parents got her a message that Ryan Sharpe was being held in the cells beneath her childhood home, Hope put together a plan.
She had no choice but to return to Montana Pack despite her vow never to do so again when they were exiled.
Stashing everything of value, she drove from Arizona to Montana with rage in her heart and vengeance on her mind.
She didn’t try to shake her hunters. She killed the ones she could and outran the ones she couldn’t.
New people chased her and she suspected Harmony had sent them but she couldn’t be sure. There was no way to tell whose side they were on. Just in case, she got gas in specific towns, sending a message to her sister.
Otherwise, the risk was too great.
Even if the information she received was part of an elaborate plan to get her here, she had to try.
One thing at a time. Anything less than her total concentration would mean failure.
The cave was high in the hills set back from a rocky ledge. The slim pack she carried held medical supplies for a wounded male. She had to keep him safe long enough to get him out of enemy territory.
The temperature was steadily dropping at night. In her insulated climbing gear, she scaled the sheer wall and pounded in anchors every few feet. She’d need them on the return trip to rappel a wounded Ryan safely to the ground.
The going was slow but she had the almost full moon to guide her. When she reached the narrow ledge in front of the hidden cave mouth, she hauled up her pack and all her ropes.
Slipping sideways into the cave, she put down her gear and took the bitter deer urine spray hunters used and covered the ridge with it, spraying some over the side to coat the ground.
It was already all over her boots and she’d done what she could to cover her tracks through the forest that lined the property she’d grown up on.
All her precautions might be for nothing but she did her best.
Dropping down the dark fur rolled above the entrance, she knew it would cover any light inside the cave or tunnels.
She removed the medical kit and snapped together a lightweight titanium litter she’d designed in case things were worse than she realized.
After eating jerky and dried fruit, she sucked down as much water as she could hold and curled up in her sleeping bag for a couple of hours. The climb had taken a lot out of her.
Too long on the run without enough food and sleep had worn her down over the years and her body had been through a lot. She knew she had a low-grade fever and multiple infections.
Going into Change would help her heal but the thought of shifting into her physical Wolf filled her with terror.
Willing herself to get the first sleep she’d had in too many days, she didn’t hear the visitor who checked on her without a sound but left her in peace.
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A DEVOTED COMPANION
A Paranormal Romance
Delaney survived a nightmare as a child. Now a grown woman, she puts on a happy face for friends and family so they don’t worry. When her parents bring her a rescue dog named Kody, she clings to him to ease her loneliness and feelings of isolation.
Kody was born a Shifter. The shape that always came easiest was a small dog he’d seen as a child. When he finds himself captured, locked in pet jail, and adopted by a nice older couple, he bides his time to make his escape. Then he meets Laney and understands she needs him more than he needs his freedom.
You need this heartfelt love story from paranormal author, Sabrina Rue. It will keep you reading until the very last page.
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ABOUT SABRINA
Sabrina Rue is a paranormal author who focuses on the human condition...with all the horror and beauty it entails.
She’s been writing and publishing for several years under another author name and looks forward to sharing the fruits of her secretive labor. If you love the crazy, upside down spaces, you need more Sabrina in your life (and your reading list).
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