Excerpt
This excerpt
is from the first of the two books in this duology – Brace For Impact – a hot
tropical crash romance. The plane has crashed. Now we meet our hero.
Guy gripped his fingers around the flight attendant's upper arm and
pulled with all his strength. The damn evacuation chute pinned her. He knelt
and tucked his hand under her head, lifting her face above the seawater. Water
streamed down her cheeks. He brushed it away. Her name tag attached to the
lanyard floated on the surface. He held it close to his face and peered at it
in the darkness. Lori.
She coughed. Good. Still alive. Then she vomited seawater. He leaned
back and tugged at her. God damn security rules. If I had a knife… He
peered through the inky blackness toward the aft galley, then shook his head.
He'd have to let her head submerge if he was going to search for anything sharp
to slice through the thick material.
Desperation clouded his thoughts. What should he do? He wouldn't let
her die. He'd seen enough senseless deaths. He hoisted her as high out of the
water as he could, then snaked his arm around her and grabbed. Boob? Will
have to remember to apologize later.
He leaned against the chute and pushed into it. It gave a little. She
moved a smidge. Encouraged, he shoved forward and tugged at her. She stayed.
The plane rocked. His feet slipped. His ribs crushed against the armrest of the
aisle seat.
Merde. He pushed to standing and
braced himself.
"You hold her. I'll push."
Guy peered toward the sound of the voice. The man who'd sat two rows
ahead worked his way past him. He was the size of an NFL linebacker.
"Ready?"
"Ready." Struggling around the bulk of the life vest, Guy
wrapped his arms around the flight attendant's upper body.
"Pull!" The man grunted as he heaved into the chute. He
stumbled back. "Damn. Ready?"
"Yup." Guy tightened his grip and leaned back, lifting the
flight attendant's face higher from the sloshing water.
"Pull! Move. Dammit."
Guy's jaw clenched as he tugged, trying to release Lori from the death
grip of the chute.
"Argh!" His strained voice filled the aft of the cabin.
When Guy felt the pressure ease, he hauled back with all his force.
Lori popped out like a newborn baby. Her weight threw him off balance, and he
landed flat on his backpack, splashing through the chair deep seawater. She
floated up.
A hand gripped his shirt, jerking him upward. "I gotcha. Ain't
losing her after I just rescued her." The man's breathing was laboured.
Spitting out water, Guy got his feet under him. "Thanks, man. I
got her. You get out of here." He shifted his backpack, then lifted Lori
over his shoulder. Not lady like, but efficient in a narrow aisle. He sloshed
through the water, stretching one hand from seat back to seat back, leading
himself out of the plane.
The plane shuttered. The tail dropped. The man before him stumbled
back, grabbed at a seat, missed and tumbled down, taking Guy and flight
attendant with him.
Water filled Guy's eyes and mouth. His heart pounded in his throat. He
kicked against the man and freed his leg. Struggling with the weight of the
attendant, he stood, flipped her over his shoulder and reached down to help his
rescuer. He tugged at the man's collar. The man bobbed on the water. Guy
frowned. He hauled the man upright and leaned him against a chair. The water
rose to his mid-chest. "I'll be right back."
Stumbling, Guy worked his way around the man and to the aft wing emergency
exit.
"Give her here," a voice called out. Guy slipped Lori off
his shoulder and handed her to a flight attendant at the exit. He turned. The
man grabbed his arm. "No. Don't go back. She's gonna sink. Any second. Get
yourself out."
"No. There's a man… back there. He pulled me out of the
water." Guy half swam, half walked back through the dark.
Holding on to the armrests and chair backs with his left hand, he
swung his right hand out before him, searching for his rescuer. His hand
touched a cold cheek. He flinched. No. Don't be dead. He knelt next to
the man, placed a hand on his neck and waited. No pulse. Tabarnac.
He tugged at the body, unwedging it from between the seats. It
floated. He gripped the collar and led it down the aisle. At the exit, the
attendant stared past Guy. "Is he..?"
Guy nodded. "I think so. But I'm not a doctor."
"Leave him here. There's a doctor looking after the…
injured. I'll see to—"
The earsplitting screech of metal being ripped filled the cabin. A
wave sloshed water into the plane. Guy swung his backpack to his chest, wrapped
his arms around it and jumped on the evacuation chute.
Blurb and Buy Links
Some like it hot… others like it HOTTER! Daryl Devoré has done it again, pairing
two of her smoking hot romances into one smouldering book.
What could be simpler than a routine
plane trip from Toronto, Canada to Caracas, Venezuela for a rookie flight
attendant and a sexy R.C.M.P. officer?
But Fate had other intentions.
After leaving a disastrous marriage,
Paix Allcot begins a new career as a flight attendant. First time in her dream
job, she is no longer a trainee and the passengers in economy class are under
her care. Especially the handsome passenger seated in 36C.
Guy Lapierre, undercover officer, is
following a vicious human-trafficker. He has little time for relationships. Too
many innocent lives are at stake. Stranded on a tropical island, he is forced
to work with Paix to survive until he makes a relationship destroying discovery.
Can a pink bra and a hot night on
the side of a volcano save the relationship and their lives?
What's a
woman to do when a voice follows her home and makes mad, passionate love to
her?
Corporate
businesswoman, Capricious Gray, is dragged to a sex toy convention by her best
friend. After a mysterious disembodied voice helps her with her
purchases, it follows her home. Passion
ensues, leaving Capri torn between lust for her fantasy lover and the desperate
need for reality in her life.
Thall,
son of one of the Fates, harbours the irrepressible need to be with the woman
he's desired from afar for years. In order to make her his, once and for all,
he must help Capri get past her fears, including the fear of what he represents
- a fantasy.
Can
fantasy become a reality for these two lovers?
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