Captured
Prequel
Fallen Siren Series
SJ Harper
GENRE:
Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance
About the Book:
Join FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong. She’s a Siren. He’s a Werewolf. Their mission is redemption.
Emma Monroe is a Fallen Siren, cursed by the gods and banished
to Earth for her failure to prevent the kidnapping of Persephone. She’s had
many names and many lives, but only one mission: redemption. Now she works for
the FBI and is on temporary assignment in Charleston. Solving this next missing
persons case could be the key to ending her ancient curse—unless the temptation
that’s her new partner gets in the way.
Zack Armstrong is a Werewolf. Tall, dark, and dangerous, he
currently works for one of the bureau’s elite Child Abduction Rapid Deployment
teams. In many respects the man is every bit as mysterious as his secret and
perilous past. But there are two things he’s certain about, that he’s going to
get his man and his woman.
When Zack finds himself suddenly shy a partner and a third child
goes missing in Charleston, Emma goes from consultant to CARD team member in
the space of a few hours. The abductions of the first two boys ended in murder,
an outcome that neither Zack nor Emma can abide. As they race against time to
track down the kidnapper and rescue the latest victim, they find themselves
fighting something just as treacherous—a growing attraction that can’t be
ignored or denied.
Excerpt:
Zack looks up at the brand new security camera by the edge of
the driveway. “There’s one more thing we can do,” Zack says. “There were
security cameras in the grocery store Mikey Nicolson was taken from and more in
the parking lot.”
“But you must have already looked at it.”
“Fresh eyes, remember? Unfortunately, the back where the body
was found isn’t covered and the space that Mrs. Nicolson parked in was in a
blind spot. I don’t know, maybe there’s something you’ll see that we didn’t.”
He slides in behind the wheel.
I open the passenger door. A gust of hot air rushes out. “Do you
think the kidnapper could have known that? Maybe we should look more closely at
some of the employees.”
The air conditioning is now going full blast. All of the windows
are rolled down.
“I don’t think anyone knew,” says Zack. “Footage is recorded and
stored. It’s not actively monitored. When I pointed out the blind spot to the
manager, he was surprised. Surveillance was originally set up to cover the
entire lot. A few months prior to the kidnapping a motor home backed into a
light pole one of the cameras was mounted on. The camera had been knocked off
line and he assumed it had been fixed.”
I sigh. “Well, right now we don’t have anything else. May as
well give the footage another look. How long will it take to get access?”
Zack answers. “No time at all. I’ve got the files loaded on my
laptop. I have to warn you, there’s several days’ worth of footage. Even on
fast forward, it’s going to take a long time to get through.”
I check my watch. “I’m game if you are. We can order in for
dinner.”
“You know, you’re a woman after my own heart. You think about
food as much as I do.”
He checks the rearview mirror then rolls up the windows and puts
the car in gear. “Your place or mine?” He turns to face me head on. His tone is
completely professional. But the question does something to me. Something it
shouldn’t. Something dangerous.
Can he sense the quickening of my pulse? Smell the hint of
arousal?
I’ve waited too long to answer.
One corner of Zack’s mouth turns up. A slow smile forms. “You’re
thinking about that question awfully hard, Agent Monroe.”
I meet his eyes. “Mine,” I answer.
He nods. “A lady who likes to be in control, call the shots.”
I grin. “A lady who is a good shot. You best remember that,
Agent Armstrong.”
About the Author:
S. J. Harper is the pen name for the
writing team of Samantha Sommersby and Jeanne C. Stein, two friends who met at
Comic- Con in San Diego and quickly bonded over a mutual love of good wine,
edgy urban fantasy, and everything Joss Whedon.
Samantha Sommersby left what she used
to call her “real- life” day job in the psychiatric !eld to pursue writing
full- time in 2007. She is the author of more than ten novels and novellas
including the critically acclaimed Forbidden series. She currently lives with
her husband and terrier pup, Olive, in a century- old Southern California
Craftsman. Sam happily spends her days immersed in a world where vampires,
werewolves, and demons are real, myths, and legends are revered, magic is
possible, and love still conquers all.
Jeanne
Stein is the national bestselling author of The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles.
She also has numerous short story credits, including most recently the novella
Blood Debt from the New York Times bestselling anthology Hexed. Her series has
been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in
collections here in the U.S. and the U.K. She lives in Denver, Colorado, where
she !nds gardening a challenge more daunting than navigating the world of
mythical creatures.
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