The Ransom. Maggie Price
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Название: The Ransom
Автор: Maggie Price
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Mills & Boon Silhouette
isbn: 9781472093660
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Praise for
MAGGIE PRICE’s
LINE OF DUTY miniseries
“A quick paced, action packed romance.”
—The Romance Reader’s Connection on Sure Bet
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an exciting reading experience.”
—Romantic Times BOOKreviews on Hidden Agenda
“Get ready for chills, thrills, and shivers of delight
as a super-stud cop and his sexy, stubborn,
soon-to-be-ex wife go after a murderous cop.”
—USA TODAY bestselling author Merline Lovelace on Shattered Vows
“The cleverly developed plot is filled with
unexpected twists and turns.”
—Romantic Times BOOKreviews on The Cradle Will Fall
“Combines romance, mystery and crime into one
page turning, exciting and sensuous story.”
—Reader 2 Reader on Trigger Effect
“A taut, romantic drama.”
—The Romance Reader on Most Wanted Woman
MAGGIE PRICE
A former police-crime analyst for the Oklahoma City Police Department, Maggie Price has never tried to distance herself from her dark “cop side” when writing the riveting romantic suspense that has become her trademark. If anything, that meshing of the cop side with the romance side is a natural blending…and her stories show us that sometimes, love can kill.
The authenticity of police work and sizzling passion she brings to her novels have earned Maggie numerous awards, including a National Readers’ Choice Award, a Booksellers’ Best Award and a coveted RITA® Award nomination. Other honors received include a Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award for series romantic suspense, and a Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Silhouette Intimate Moments.
Maggie invites readers to contact her at 416 N.W. 8th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73102-2604. Or reach her on the Web at www.MaggiePrice.com.
The Ransom
Maggie Price
MILLS & BOON
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Dear Reader,
While a civilian crime analyst for the Oklahoma City Police Department, I snagged an assignment to a task force investigating the abduction of two preteen girls from the state fair. During that time, I was in contact with the distraught parents. Their despair and suffering touched my heart and gave me an insider’s view of what it means to lose a child to an unknown evil.
That experience inspired me to tell the story of a divorcée whose small son is kidnapped for ransom. And the only person she dares turn to for help is the ex-cop who walked away a decade ago with a piece of her heart.
The Ransom is the story not only of the struggle to save a little boy’s life, but of the rekindling of a love that refuses to die.
Warmest regards,
Maggie Price
To Pam Hopkins, my supersonic agent whom I’ve
been blessed to have in my corner for over a decade.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
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
PROLOGUE
Cross C Ranch
Layton, Texas
KATHRYN CONNER was coming home.
Kathryn Conner Mason, the man sitting on the ranch house’s shady front porch amended. He had one hand clenched around a coffee mug and that morning’s newspaper draped across his blue-jeaned thigh.
He could hear himself breathe.
Feel the sweat trickle from the pores of his underarms.
Taste his fear.
His spine stiff, he propped a shoulder against one of the porch’s vintage white columns and stared out across the pristine lawn.
The July sun beat down without mercy, but the smothering heat couldn’t touch СКАЧАТЬ