With Every Breath
Slow Burn, #4
Slow Burn, #4
by Maya Banks
Releasing August 23rd 2016
Avon
Avon
#1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling
author Maya Banks continues her suspenseful and sizzling Slow Burn series with
this fourth book—a mesmerizingly sexy tale of a strong, brilliant woman who
encounters the one man who makes her lose all control.
Blurb
Eliza
Cummings fought free of a monster who terrorized her when she was an innocent
teenager and helped put him away for good. She took a job with Devereaux
Security Services and devoted every hour to taking down the very thing she’d
nearly become. No one, not even those closest to her, know her darkest,
shameful secrets. But now the killer has been set free on a legal loophole and
it’s only a matter of time before he comes for her. Eliza's only choice is to
run and lead the monster away from the people she loves.
Wade
Sterling has always lived by his own rules, a law unto himself who answers to
no one. He’s never professed to be a good man, and he’s definitely not hero material.
Wade never allows anyone close enough to see the man behind the impenetrable
mask—but one woman threatens his carefully leashed control. He took a bullet
for her and the result was more than a piece of metal entrenched in his skin.
She was under his skin and nothing he did rid himself of the woman with the
courage of a warrior and who thinks nothing of putting her life before others.
But
when Wade sees a panicked and haunted Eliza he knows something is very wrong,
because the fool woman has never been afraid of anything. And when she tries to
run, the primal beast barely lurking beneath his deceptively polished façade
erupts in a rage. She may not know it, but she belongs to him. This time, Eliza
isn't going to play the protector. She was damn well going to be the protected.
And as long as Wade breathes, no one will ever hurt what is his.
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Eliza came awake with
none of her usual crispness and ready- to-take-on-the-world attitude. She felt
as though she’d been hit by a truck and her first instinct was to roll over and
pull the covers over her head and sleep for several more hours. Even as she
knew she wouldn’t do any such thing, it was still a nice thought. Still, she
thought she could give herself another five minutes before stumbling out of bed
and into the shower.
For once, things were
slow at Devereaux Security Services after a veritable shit storm of activity
over the last several months. She only hoped something popped up when she went
into the office today, otherwise it was going to be another boring- ass day at
work.
Just as she roused
herself from her laziness and threw her legs over the side of the bed to stand,
the landline on her nightstand rang. She glanced down at it, frowning. If it
was Dane or anyone else from DSS, surely they’d call her cell. A quick look
told her that her cell phone was on the nightstand charging and a glance at it
also told her she hadn’t missed any calls. If this was a telemarketer calling
her at oh-dark-thirty so help her she was going to hunt them down and shove her
foot as far up their ass as she could.
If it weren’t for the
fact that it could be one of her coworkers she would have simply
ignored the ringing all together. With a sigh, she yanked up the phone and
barked an unwelcome hello into the receiver.
There was a short
pause and then the clearing of a throat. “Miss Caldwell? Melissa Caldwell?”
Eliza froze, her blood
turning to ice in her veins. She hadn’t heard that name in ten years.
Hadn’t been that person in ten years. And in two seconds flat, her past
had slammed into her present like a speeding train.
“What do you want?”
she asked in a dull voice.
“This is Clyde
Barksdale, district attorney for Keerney County, Oregon.”
She knew damn well who
Clyde Barksdale was. Like she’d forget that it was him she’d worked with to put
Thomas Harrington away?
“I take it this isn’t
a social call,” she said acidly.
“You’d be correct.”
The DA emitted an exhausted sounding sigh. “Look, there’s no easy way to say
this but Thomas Harrington won an appeal to overturn his conviction and he’ll
be set free in three weeks’ time.”
Eliza’s knees folded
and she landed with a hard bounce on the bed. She was utterly numb with shock,
and she shook her head in an effort to dispel the fog and confusion surrounding
her. Was this some fucked-up dream—nightmare—she was trapped in?
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Author InfoMaya Banks is a #1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author whose chart toppers have included erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, Scottish historical romances. She is the author of the Breathless Trilogy, the KGI novels, the Sweet series, and the Colters Legacy novels.
She lives
in the South with her husband and three children and other assorted babies,
such as her two Bengal kitties and a Calico who’s been with her as long as her
youngest child. She’s an avid reader of romance and loves to dish books with
her fans and anyone else who’ll listen! She very much enjoys interacting with
her readers on Facebook and Twitter as well as in her Yahoo! Group.
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