RECKONING
Valentine Shepherd Book 3
by Shana Figueroa
(July 11, 2017; Forever Yours eBook; $4.99)
Hell hath no fury like Valentine . . .
Five years. It's been five years of blissful peace for private eye
Valentine Shepherd and her hot-ass husband, Max Carressa. Five years of
watching their twins grow up healthy and happy, even as Val waits for Hell to
unleash its fury. Her enemies have been planning, and Val knows she doesn't
have nearly enough weapons to protect her family . . .
Yet Val and Max have one advantage---their insatiable desire for
each other allows them to see into the future, and the visions they share may
just give them a chance. But as events are set into motion that endanger
everyone Val's ever loved, she'll do whatever it takes to stop the horror she's
already seen---even if it means her end.
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Jamal nodded. “Yes, ma’am—Val—uh, ma’am.”
She took a step toward the door, then turned
back. “You’ve got everything you need, right? Their nap schedules, their
favorite books, their lunch and snack foods—”
“Yes, I’ve got it. I wrote it all down,” he
said in a gently reassuring tone. She’d need to get used to that voice, and
train herself not to mistake it for condescension.
“And it’s one snack
before lunch. Don’t let them trick you into giving them an entire package of
Oreos. They’re more clever than you might think.”
“Oreos on lockdown. Clear as crystal.”
“You remember all the codes for the locks and
alarms on the house, right?”
“Uh-huh.”
“And you’ve got my number if you need
anything?”
“I sure do.”
She nodded, walked to the living room’s
threshold, stopped, and turned again. “Don’t let anyone in here who isn’t Max
or me, no matter who they say they are. I mean it.”
Jamal smiled again—he did that a lot, maybe
because he had nice teeth—though a hint of uncertainty tainted his friendly
gaze. Probably wondering what the hell he’d gotten himself into. “Yes, ma’—Val.
I won’t let anyone in.”
“No one.”
“Got it. No one’s coming through that front
door, not on my watch.”
She should’ve left then; instead, she stared
at him until a bead of sweat trickled down his temple.
Simon broke the standoff. “We’ll be fine,
Mommy. Go talk to the cop.”
Val softened a bit at that. If Simon knew he
and his sister would be fine, then they’d be fine. As long as she didn’t
inadvertently change the future, what he’d seen would come to pass. Val
embraced them both in long hugs, kissing their foreheads. She thought they
might cry when she left; they didn’t. They knew they’d see her again soon.
Still, when Val walked to the door leading down to the carport and grasped the
doorknob, she saw her hand shaking. She’d never forgive herself if something
happened to her babies while she left them with an overpriced babysitter. Would
they really be safe without her? They’d have to be. Max was right—she couldn’t
be with them all the time. She’d have to trust other people eventually, and
that time was now. God help Jamal if he screwed it up, though.
Swallowing back a lump in her throat, Val
forced herself forward, away from her children, into her car, out of the house,
and back into the world she’d been hiding from for over five years. Tendrils
from its black underbelly would likely rise up and try to seize her again. But
there was no way around it if she wanted any chance to save her mother.
Time to go see the cop.
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She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two young daughters,
and two old pugs. She enjoys reading, writing (obviously), martial arts, video
games, and SCIENCE---it's poetry in motion! By day, she serves her country in
the US Air Force as an aerospace engineer. By night, she hunkers down in a
corner and cranks out the crazy stories lurking in her head.
She took Toni Morrison's advice and started writing the books she
wanted to read. Hopefully you'll want to read them, too!
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