Protecting The Boss. Beverly Long
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Название: Protecting The Boss

Автор: Beverly Long

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

Серия: Wingman Security

isbn: 9781474093569

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СКАЧАТЬ Reader,

      I love road trips. The excitement of picking the destination and then planning the route. The routine of packing snacks for the car; a trip without a bag of red licorice at my side is really not a trip at all. The challenge of shoving suitcases and shoes and way too many things into the trunk because there’s nobody to threaten me with a fifty-pound weight limit and that I only get one carry-on bag!

      Then there’s the drive and all the good things that come with that. Perhaps a glimpse of something unexpected like the field of prairie dogs in South Dakota or the joy of a sunset in Bryce Canyon National Park. Or a back road in northern Wisconsin that led to a little store selling the best jelly and pickled beets one might ever taste.

      And what is better than the anticipation of arrival and then finally seeing new things or old friends, depending on the trip?

      In Protecting the Boss, Megan North is about to take a big-time road trip. She’s going to open four boutiques in four different states in less than two weeks. Her bags are packed, and she’s got a plan! It does not include security specialist Seth Pike.

      But there’s danger ahead, just beyond the bend in the road, and it’s going to take the two of them, working together, to make it back home alive.

      I invite you to come along for the ride! I think you’re going to enjoy it.

      All my best,

       Beverly

      My thanks to my good friend Margaret O’Connor Govett at Girls in Pearls Boutique for all things boutique related. Any errors are solely mine.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Dear Reader

       Dedication

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Epilogue

       About the Publisher

       Chapter 1

      Seth Pike had two child-size teddy bears wrapped in clear plastic under one arm and a twelve-year-old bottle of scotch under the other. What he didn’t have was an umbrella, which meant he was going to get wet.

      The rain, a welcome relief from the heat, was falling hard, practically bouncing up when it hit. Vegas, a mass of concrete and hard-baked earth in August, was unreceptive to Mother Earth’s goodness.

      He had four blocks to go and it would be a damn miracle if he didn’t get his eye poked out by some fool who couldn’t control his umbrella in the strong wind that had come along with the rain. He spied the big green awning of one of his favorite pizza places and СКАЧАТЬ