Dancing
with Detective Danger
By:
Lynn Crandall
Blurb
Uncovering
secrets and exposing truth are all in a day’s work for private
investigator Sterling Aegar. But when her latest case threatens to
reveal her own buried feelings for an old love, Sterling runs for
cover.
A body
in the bathtub and pleas from a jilted wife to find her wayward
husband mean a welcome break from the usual humdrum cases Sterling
and her sister, Lacey, are called to investigate. But when Sterling’s
old flame, Detective Ben Kirby, walks into the murder scene, she
feels her world spin out of control. Danger from thugs and murderers
poses no greater threat than the peril she’d suffer if she lets
daredevil Ben get too close.
Seeing
Sterling for the first time in two years is for Ben like drinking in
a healing tonic. He could never forget the way it felt to run his
hands over her delicious curves or the way she touched his soul. She
remains the one person who can make the emptiness in his gut go away.
Finding the murderer is his job, but protecting Sterling from
seriously dangerous people is his mission.
As the
case unfolds, Sterling and Ben not only solve the murder and locate
the missing husband, they confront secrets that set them each free
from a painful past.
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Author
Info
Lynn
Crandall started spinning stories as a child when she tried to
entertain her younger sister at night when they were supposed to be
going to sleep. In the dark, her stories typically took on a scary or
paranormal element -- didn't do much to put them to sleep. Today, she
hopes her stories still fail to put readers to sleep, but rather take
them on a journey. That's what she’s been on since she decided to
make writing her focus. As a reporter and magazine feature writer,
she truly enjoys learning as she works on stories. As a romance
writer, she enjoys doing the research and following an evolving story
of the characters.
Author
Links
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@lcrandall246
Excerpt
Here’s
a peek at the main characters’ first meet up in since their break
up two years ago, told from the hero’s point of view.
Ben
stood behind the richly embroidered drapes at the condo’s living
room window and
discreetly
watched Sterling walk to the car as he shuffled paperwork through his
fingers. Her
petite
frame, dressed in a slim gray suit, pulled his attention as though he
had no control.
That’s
the way it was with her. He hadn’t seen her for two years, but all
during that time he’d
been
unable to will her out of his thoughts for very long. Seeing her up
close and feeling her
presence
today had stirred up old feelings inside him. After they’d gotten
together, the terrible
aloneness
he’d grown to live with had vanished. It hadn’t mattered that
before she’d come along
he’d
had no one, no family, because she’d completely filled the
emptiness in his gut. Then when
she
left, he’d felt all the more alone for having known but lost her.
Sterling’s
straight, chestnut-colored hair had grown longer, brushing gently
against her slim
shoulders.
He liked it. And the two years apart had worn beautifully on her
fine-boned face. She
looked
even lovelier than he remembered. In the brief moments he’d stood
next to her, he’d
taken
in everything: her shapely curves, her intense, blue-green eyes, her
sensuously curved lips
the
color of a rich Merlot wine.
Ben’s
stomach tightened. It had to happen sooner or later, he thought to
himself. Even though
Sterling
had left his life, it seemed inevitable that they’d run into each
other sometime while
working
a case. He’d like to think it meant their destinies were intimately
intertwined. That even
though
their paths might occasionally diverge and meander, they were
actually headed in the
same
direction. She’d been emphatic at their breakup that there was no
future for the two of
them—that
they wanted different things in life—but he just didn’t believe
it. He believed in
possibilities,
and though in the interim he’d given Sterling her space, the hope
remained strong in
him
that eventually, along the way, they would come together again,
perhaps even stronger than
before.
Ben
watched Sterling drive away and couldn’t help himself. Was it too
much to hope maybe
this
time it could be different?
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