by Laura Day
“…but I can find out!” Baltasar says.
“You haven’t exactly proven yourself reliable in the past,” the interrogator points out.
“I know! I’m sorry! That was a mistake! I shouldn’t have done that! I see that now!”
“Baltasar… why should I believe you now? How do I know you aren’t the same lying sack of shit you have always been?”
Baltasar licks his lips nervously. “This is bad, okay? I know what will happen if this virus thing gets out. You Americans will send your planes and your bombs and you will turn the sand to glass. I don’t want that. Okay? I still have family that lives in Syria. I just want to go home. That’s all I want. I thought this was my ticket to get home. I tell you where Dr. Baker is and you forget about me.”
“But you see, Baltasar, there is that trust thing. You fucked us once. Maybe you are planning on fucking us again. How do I know?”
“I won’t! I just want to go home! I just want to go home and be with my wife! Please!”
“But you just said you don’t know where he is.”
“But I know who has him! I told you, I can find out!”
“Tell me who they are. If it checks out, then we can talk about what happens next.”
“No! I can’t do that! You will kill me!”
“Baltasar… I’m not going to kill you. I’m just going to make you wish I would kill you.”
Baltasar says nothing, the sweat beading on his face. “No. I won’t tell you. Let me go and I will find out. Or kill me.”
“You know what I think. I don’t think you know anything. I think you think I’m stupid,” the man says, rising. “Perhaps I should have Evans come in here and talk to you. I understand that you and he go way back. You know, I’m kind of surprised that you made it this far. I guess I didn’t give him enough credit. After reading your file, I’m rather surprised you lived long enough for us to even know you might know something.” The man looks to the guard standing in the room. “Find Evans and have him report here,” the interrogator says before stepping out.
“Wait! Wait!” Baltasar screams, rising to his feet as the door swings shut, leaving him alone. His hands are bound with a plastic restraint, but his feet are free and he paces around the room. A moment later the interrogator steps into the room with Ryker and Ronnie. “We’ll let him sweat a few minutes. If I send you in there, can I trust you to actually not kill him?” he asks Ryker.
Ryker stares at Baltasar through the window. “For now.”
The scary Ryker is back. “Ryker,” Ronnie says softly.
He looks at her and his face softens. “Don’t worry. I’m okay. But this is the best chance we have to find your father. We have to break him, no matter the cost.”
“But…” she says.
“Don’t worry, Dr. Baker,” the interrogator says gently. “We haven’t laid a finger on him. He’s nothing but a coward. Easy to break. His imagination is doing most of the work for us. Now, Evans, this is how it is going to go down. We’re going to go in together. You are going to take the place of the guard. Don’t say a word. Just stand there and look like you are only seconds away from pulling your weapon shooting him where he sits. Should be easy for you since we had to practically pry your weapon out of his side as it was,” the man teases with a grin.
“If he talks are you going to let him go?” Ryker asks, his eyes never leaving Baltasar as he returns to his chair and sits down again.
The man smiles. “There are many types of freedom,” he says as he turns to the door. “Dr. Baker… please stay and continue to listen. If he says anything that sounds wrong, or you hear something that seems relevant that I don’t pick up on, please press the red button,” the man says, pointing to a button on the control panel under the window. “I will get a tone in my ear and will know that you need to see me. Okay?”
She nods slowly, uncertain that she wants to see what happens next.
Ronnie watches through the glass as Ryker and the other man enter the room. Baltasar’s eyes go wide when Ryker steps into the room. She is amazed at how cruel Ryker can look, a nasty smile on his face as he stands by the door. Ronnie feels her stomach flip over and she wonders if she knows this man at all.
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Book 1 of the Fallen Angels MC series
They’ll fight each other along the way, but she is the only chance he has to save both his name and his club.
Mason Butler is good with numbers. Tasked as treasurer for the Fallen Angels MC, he’s always been able to make the numbers add up, but when he discovers that a large chunk of money has gone missing, he decides to call in help to figure out where it could have gone.
Caroline Lewis is a computer whiz and a math genius, but she’s not great with people, especially incredibly sexy bikers who show up at her house unannounced. Working together is difficult, but underneath the hostility, there is plenty of sexual tension that threatens to explode.
As they fight the urges that keep bringing them closer, Caroline begins to find evidence that someone has been stealing from the club. To find the thieves and save the club, they’ll have to work together, but when Mace is forced to make a choice, the consequences will put everything to the test.
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Derrick Baker knew where his life was headed
Since graduation, his path had seemed straightforward. He enlisted in the navy, married his high school sweetheart, had a son, and now was expecting a second child, a little girl. He would have loved seeing his wife grow with their children inside her, but he’d always believed he had a duty to do his country, and he was determined to see it through.
Sarah Donovan had no idea what to do with herself.
Getting laid off from another job had convinced her than she needed to figure out where her life was going. Now, almost thirty with no career, no husband, and nothing to look forward to but growing old alone, she was starting to worry. Until she gets the phone call that changes everything.
They are brought together by tragedy
Even as they grew older and drifted apart, Sarah loved her sister more than anyone, so receiving a call telling her that both her sister and her unborn niece were killed in a car accident, Sarah races across the country to help her brother-in-law and her nephew.
Now, as they try to rebuild their lives, they just might create a future together.
Derrick, taking leave from the military to take care of his son, is devastated and turns to the sister-in-law he hardly knows to help work through the pain and anger of losing half his family. But as they mourn together, lust blooms between them, and continues to grow into something much wilder.
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Book 1 of the Iron Raiders MC series
She’s the only thing he’s ever wanted, and he’s the one thing she never saw coming.
Things have never been black and white for Ellie Carmichael. Growing up surrounded by the men of the Iron Raiders, the motorcycle club that’s been the only family she’s ever known, she’s always believed in the clubs mission, even when they’re activities weren’t entirely legal. But, as the daughter of a prostitute in their stable, who got herself knocked up and then locked up, she grew up thinking of the men of the club as uncles, and then brothers, and the president who led them all as the father she never knew.
Austin Parker tried not to take anything too seriously. After getting out of his crappy trailer park on the back of his alcoholic father’s bike, he spent two years travelling around the country before finding the Iron Raiders. Something about the club convinced him to stay, and he took full advantage of the bonuses of the lifestyle, including the rotating door of women in and out of his bed.
Ellie and Austin have never gotten along. She can’t deny how attractive he is, but his couldn’
t-care-less attitude when it comes to the club that raised her drives her crazy, as does his penchant for one-night-stands. But when a night of drinking leads to her waking up in his bed, she’s the one who can’t leave fast enough. Austin, for the first time in his life, can’t get her out of his head, and he decides to pursue her. Meanwhile, outside forces start to threaten the club, and it will take everyone to ensure the future of the Iron Raiders.
As Austin begins to fight for the only things he’s ever wanted, it will take everything he’s got to prove his loyalty, to the club and to Ellie.
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Derek Martinez isn’t looking for glory.
He’s never been one to lead the pack, and he hates responsibility; he just wants to lose himself in the roar of engines as he follows his brothers in the Black Brothers Motorcycle Club. Even the women in his life want more than he’s willing to give, so he takes them as they come and leaves them in the morning.
Danni Stewart has had more than enough bad-boy in her past.
After falling for a biker, and ending up alone with a broken heart and a baby, she’s sworn them off entirely. Raising her son on her own, she just wants to work and give her son the best life she can, even if she has to go it alone forever.
They couldn’t be more wrong for each other.
When they meet at the diner where Danni works, neither can deny the chemistry between them. Even though she wants him more than anything else in the world, Danni's past experience tells her that he’s dangerous. As she gives him her body, she keeps her heart locked away.
Derek can’t ignore the way Danni makes him feel, and for the first time considers the tantalizing possibility of something much more. They just might be what each other needs, but first they need to let themselves want it.
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They say that truth is stranger than fiction. But for Laura Turner it's also just as deadly...
Landing the lead female role in the latest blockbuster action film was a dream come true for the struggling actress and there wasn't anything she wouldn't do to keep it. But when the director insists on the input of a real-life Motorcycle Gang member for authenticity's sake she starts to wonder if maybe she has made a mistake.
Roman is gorgeous, mysterious, and thoroughly distracting. Swaggering around on set in his leather's and impressing cast and crew alike, Laura can't help but fall for his brooding charms, too.
But when their professional relationship starts to take a seductively delicious turn things start to heat up and not in the way Laura would like.
Someone out there has a problem with Roman revealing gang secrets. And because of her new-found status as Roman's old lady, that means someone out there has a problem with Laura, too.
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John Malcolm really missed his old life.
He’d never considered staying in the military past when he was due to be discharged, but now that he had walked away and was trying to rebuild his life, he was wishing he was back in uniform. No one wanted to hire vets, and his skills were somewhat specific. Deciding to take things into his own hands, he opens a Private Investigation business and prays that this will be the answer.
Becca McDermott just wants her crazy life to calm down.
As a McDermott, she knows that crazy is in their genes, but she’s really getting fed up. After her sister enthusiastically decides to become a stripper (with her parents blessing,) and her mother comes out as a closet bi-sexual who is ready to “explore a little,” Becca doesn’t know how to also deal with her insane brother, who has seemingly gone AWOL from the navy after a trip to see her. She knows she needs to find him and talk him down, but she has no idea where to start.
Becca’s so much more than John can handle.
After searching on the internet for a PI, Becca pays John a visit and begs him to track down her brother. John wants to take the job, but there’s one problem--Becca is insisting on coming along for the ride. After she makes him an offer he can’t refuse, they set out to find her missing brother. But spending so much time together is starting to affect them both, and they can’t ignore the sexual tension growing between them.
As their passion explodes and they try to find her brother, they might also find something no one expected.
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Lance Brewer has his own idea of justice, separate from the law.
It’s never been a problem. Miller is a small town with no police and an easygoing sheriff half a county away. Miller sees to its own affairs, and more often than not that means Lance sees to Miller’s affairs.
Katie Brighton has been trying for years to bring law and order to her town.
She doesn’t care for Lance’s methods, effective as they may be. Real justice shouldn’t be delivered with fists and it’s her mission to change Miller for the better.
Her efforts are finally about to pay off.
Katie’s cause has picked up steam. She secured the budget for Miller’s very own three-man police force and Lance is furious with the little troublemaker.
Because that’s all the law brings: trouble.
Katie laughs him off for all of five minutes before she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Rather than law and order she brought corruption and greed to sleepy little Miller. Now she needs Lance’s help to fix it, but will he set aside his told-you-so’s in time to stop the crooked cops from destroying the town she loves so much?
