River Reckoning
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MY
WRITING PLANS FOR 2014 BY JENNY LYNN
I’ve got so many projects started, it would be great
if I finished every one of them in 2014 and found them all homes. And I have
several more stories loosely outlined that I’d like to at least start. The
problem is finding the time to finish it all since I still work full time and
my family likes clean clothes and a hot meal once in a while. Darn their hides!
I’ve started the second book in the Trouble in
Trespass Series, River Refuge, which features Nathan’s partner and best friend,
Ben. Oh, Ben, how I love him so, and I hope readers will too. There’s a third
book planned, River Redemption, and I’m really looking forward to writing it. I
think the hero of that book will surprise readers of the series.
I’ve got another series in the works that’s set in a
small town in Georgia called Serenity. The first book, Bee to Blossom (a/k/a
the “filthy redneck romance”), is out on submission now. Fingers crossed I hear
something soon. It will be a three-book series as well, unless I can wrangle up
some more characters.
In addition to the aforementioned projects, there’s
a stand-alone set in Montana. It’s sort of a beauty and the beast type story
with a very tortured hero who doesn’t think he deserves the heroine because
he’s broken and bruised inside. I can’t wait to give him his HEA.
Lastly, I hope to write a few erotic short stories
for anthology submissions. Whew! My brain hurts from just writing all that out.
Here’s hoping I can tackle all these projects successfully. What things do you
hope to accomplish in the new year?
River ReckoningBy Jenny LynnTrouble in Trespass, Book 1Publisher: Evernight PublishingRelease Date: November 6, 2013Genre: Romantic SuspenseLength: 276 PagesISBN: 978-1771306379ASIN: B00GJ3DHNEAdd to GoodreadsAbout the book:Bond Mason’s roots run deep in the backwoods hamlet of Trespass, Florida. Nestled against the banks of the Suwannee River, the only home she’s ever known holds bittersweet memories of a family long gone. Except one of her ghosts isn’t dead and possessive ex-lover James Kyle wants her back.U.S. Deputy Marshal Nathan Gates sights are set on capturing fugitive Robert Kyle. Wanted for the cold-blooded murder of a DEA agent, Robert is suspected of being hidden away with his moonshine-brewing, marijuana-growing family of fellow lawbreakers, one of which is his brother, James.Nathan expected high temperatures when he arrived in Trespass. What he hadn’t counted on is his searing attraction to southern beauty Bond Mason. She winds him around her finger like a tendril of Spanish moss, but his lawman’s intuition tells him she’s hiding secrets too. When he finally convinces her to talk, he’s not prepared for the dark truths she reveals about her hometown.The Suwannee is deep, but Trespass’s sins run much deeper. For once, Nathan might be in over his head.
Excerpt
“That’s far enough,” Bond said, never taking her
eyes off the man closest to her. In her peripheral vision the other man
stopped, raising his hands at his sides while his mouth opened and closed like
a fish out of water.
“Whoa, let’s not get crazy here. Neither one of us
is armed, miss,” the man directly in front of her said … the tall, dark, and
disturbingly handsome one.
Cocking her head, Bond calmly asked, “Who’s getting
crazy?”
“Okay, bad choice of words. Could you please put
down the cannon? We’re not going to hurt you.”
His brown-eyed gaze traveled lazily over her face
and body, making her skin grow hotter than what could be attributed to the
day’s scorching temperatures. He may not be armed, but he was most certainly
dangerous. Despite the strange predicament, her nipples tightened rebelliously
beneath the thin layers of her clothing.
Oh, Bond, now is definitely not the time.
“Obviously not, since I’m the one holding the big
gun. It’s not very polite or wise to go sneaking up on someone in the woods.
Did you two take a wrong turn somewhere?” Bond looked pointedly at the other
man’s choice in snazzy footwear. “Get lost on your way back to the big city?”
The shorter one, though not by much, muttered
something she couldn’t make out, shaking his head at the ground. Or maybe he
was just sad his pretty boots were getting dirty.
“Look, we were told back at the bar we could find
Bond Mason on this trail.”
“Well, congratulations, Boy Scout. You found her.
Now who are you?”
Humor danced in the tall one’s eyes, making them
crinkle in the corners attractively. “You’re Bond Mason?”
She should be used to that question by now, but it
still managed to grate on her nerves. And oh hell, he had a dimple in his right
cheek when he smiled. Talk about unfair. It was hard to look impervious while
staring at dimples on a face as pretty as his.
“I thought we’d established that already. How about
answering my question,” she said.
“Can I drop my hands? My identification is in my
back pocket.”
Bond shrugged one shoulder. “I never told you to
raise your hands.”
Biting his bottom lip to no doubt hide another grin,
he reached into the back pocket of his jeans, causing the soft cloth of the
black t-shirt he wore to mold to his broad chest. Pulling out a thin leather
wallet, he flipped it open and held it out for her. A shiny silver star filled
her vision. Her stomach sank to her toes. She quickly scanned the card next to
it.
Dammit. Bond lowered the gun and tucked it into the
back waistband of her shorts then adjusted the strap on the camera slung across
her chest. Irritated, as she would be by a pesky wasp, she brushed past Deputy
U.S. Marshal Nathan Gates, heading back toward home.
“Miss Mason, we’d like to talk to you,” Nathan said,
stomping along behind her, his partner following along.
“So talk,” Bond said without slowing her
steps.
“Preferably in private.”
She huffed out a harsh laugh, spreading her arms
wide. “It doesn’t get much more private than this, Marshal. Unless you’re
afraid a mockingbird might repeat what you say. I figure you’ve got about four
minutes before we clear the woods.”
“Miss Mason, please. It’s about the Kyle brothers.”
“It’s always about the Kyle brothers. You think
you’re the first federal boys to come sniffing around for information on them?
Not hardly.” She ducked under a branch. “I’ll tell you the same thing I told
the others. I couldn’t give a damn about how much moonshine they brew or how
much weed they grow.” Bond waved her hand in the general direction of the
opposite side of the river. “That’s their land over there, and as far as I
know they pay the taxes on it. What they do there, regardless of whether it’s
legal or not, is none of my business.” Not that she approved of what the
Kyles did. She just did her best to distance herself from it, both mentally and
physically. It was the only way Bond managed to hold onto her sanity.
“Would it concern you to know Robert Kyle is
suspected of killing a federal agent, and his brothers recently helped him
escape from a prison work camp up in Mineola? Or that Garrett Kyle may have
kidnapped a fifteen year old girl from around here?”
Bond halted abruptly, her chest cavity going as cold
as fresh-tapped spring water. She’d heard the talk of Robert being arrested and
why, but she hadn’t heard he’d escaped, or the news about the girl. She propped
her hands on her hips and sighed. Nathan came around to stand in front of her.
“We could use your help.”
“With what?” Bond shook her head in frustration and
started walking again. “I don’t know anything about a murder or a kidnapping.”
“But you have to have connections here in Trespass.
Aren’t you a native?”
“As a swamp cabbage,” she grumbled.
She could’ve sworn she heard Nathan chuckle before
he resumed his pestering. “Your place is a local landmark, a popular hangout.
And it’s directly across the river from theirs.”
“That’s like saying I know how to make cheese
because I live across the street from a dairy. Proximity means nothing,
Marshal. Neither does popularity, for that matter.”
“All this talk about food is making me hungry,” his
partner said glibly. Bond resisted a chuckle of her own. It wouldn’t do to make
nice with these two because trouble would soon follow, hot on their muddy
boot-heels.
Nathan wrapped his fingers around her
bicep—completely around her bicep, she noticed—stopping her at the edge of the
woods. A boat sped by on the river. Bond tracked it with her eyes
cautiously before she glanced down at his hand on her arm then up at him. He
released her from his warm grip, but her skin continued to tingle where his
fingers had been. “Can we please just have thirty minutes of your time?”
She studied his face for a moment before she turned
away from the intensity in his watchful eyes. Her cousin, Sarah, was still
lying in the sun, showing way more bare skin than she should. At fifteen, she
was just now beginning to blossom into a beautiful young woman. If anything
happened to Sarah it would devastate Bond’s Aunt Margie and Uncle Pete. Bond,
too.
Blowing a slow breath through her nose, she caved,
and rather easily at that. “I live in the white house with the green shutters
on the other side of the Fish Camp. Wait for me on the back porch. I need to
check in at the bar first.”
The handsome Marshal gave her a relieved smile,
making him altogether too attractive for his own good. “Thanks, Miss Mason.”
Her hormones said, “You can call me Bond.”
AUTHOR
BIO
I started reading when I was four, thanks to a babysitter
who found out the only way to get me to sit still was to put a book in my hand.
By the time I entered kindergarten, I’d blown through just about every Little
Golden Book ever printed. Ten years later, much to my mother’s dismay, I found
her stash of paperback romance novels. She tried to divert me back to something
more chaste by buying me Harlequins, but I still snuck copies of her Kathleen
Woodiwiss’s and Johanna Lindsey’s when she wasn’t looking. Shanna, The Flame
and the Flower, and Fires of Winter will always hold special places in my heart
because they introduced me to roguish heroes, headstrong heroines, and the
trouble they could get into together.
I live in a swampy little corner of north-central
Florida with my family, both the two-legged and four-legged variety. I love to
read, run hot and cold in regards to cooking, and I never miss an episode of
Justified, Longmire, or Dexter. I guess I like justice in all its various
forms.
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