With: Constance Gillam
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A MAN WILL GO TO HELL AND BACK TO PROTECT WHAT IS HIS.
Police Captain John Iron Hawk’s life is a speeding vehicle down a deserted road. A road with his tormented past looming at his back and a future summed up by the black thunder clouds building on the horizon.
His relationship with his daughter is nonexistent. And he can’t seem to say the words to the woman he loves to make her stay.
When Zora Hughes receives a job offer from Cosmopolitan magazine, she knows she has to take it and reestablish her career on the New York fashion scene. She has nothing to keep her on Little River Reservation, even if John is the only man she’s ever trusted or loved this completely. John’s life is his job, and he has little left over to build something with her.
But when a psychopathic killer turns their world upside down, they must dig deep to find the strength to outwit an adversary who will strip them of everything they hold dear…including each other.
Chapter
One
Excerpt
Morning sunlight blasted through a
break in the curtains straight into John Iron Hawk’s tired brain. Four domestic
call-outs last night, three drunk and disorderly, one battery at the casino, a
dead bull moose, and one mangled Land Rover. He’d given his deputy the night
off.
“You awake?” Zora’s voice cut
through his mental cataloging.
“Yeah.” He spooned her with his
body.
“God, you’re hot,” she muttered.
“All the women tell me that.”
She groaned, a rusty laugh followed.
“Wilma Dull Knife’s eighty-year-old grandmother doesn’t count.”
“She’s got good taste.” A
comfortable silence stretched between them. He traced the line of her hip,
letting the hypnotic motion lull him back into a semi-drowsy state. These few
minutes with her in the morning, before the insanity of his job intruded on
their peace, were the highlight of his day.
Her body tensed beneath his palm.
“I got a call from Cosmopolitan yesterday.”
He stopped stroking. His heart rate
kicked up a notch. Here it was, the news he’d been dreading. New York was
calling. He resumed his stroking. “Oh, yeah? What did they want?”
She flipped onto her back and stared
up at the ceiling. He stared at her. Even first thing in the morning she was
beautiful, all caramel-colored, full-lipped, and bright-eyed.
“To let me know Odessie Adomoyero
was leaving, and to ask if I was interested in
her position.”
John swallowed the lump in his
throat. “And you said?”
“That I’d think about it.”
She scooted up until her upper body
rested against the head board. The sheet fell to her waist, exposing her
breasts. He reached up and ran a finger around one dusky-colored nipple.
Knowing she might leave and go back to New York didn’t stop his dick from
lengthening. Morning sex with her had always been good. He took a deep breath
and dragged his eyes away from her body. Now was not the time. Now was the time
to tell her how much he loved her and wanted her in his life.
“John, do you want this relationship
to work?”
He opened his mouth to say yes but instead reached for the glass of
water on the nightstand. He remembered his ex-wife asking a similar question.
He hadn’t been able to say what she wanted to hear either. As much as he’d
loved his daughter’s mother, he loved Zora more.
After chugging half the liquid, he
replaced the glass. The water sloshed against the sides, in tune with the
trembling of his hand.
His cell vibrated. He ignored it.
“I—”
The phone did a violent dance across
the wooden surface.
She turned away.
He grabbed the phone. “What?”
Silence. Then a hesitant voice.
“It’s Oscar, Chief.”
John sighed and swung his legs out
of bed. “What’s up?”
“We got a body.”
∞
Sunglasses didn’t help. Sun rays drilled through
John’s skull like a laser. Not enough
sleep and no coffee made him one evil son of a bitch.
He saw the buzzards as soon as he neared Eagle
Crossing. The area was part of the abandoned quarry that had closed several
years ago.
Oscar Levant met him on the road.
“What
we got?” John asked as he crawled out of the Jeep.
Usually ruddy and sweating, his deputy was pale
as the underside of a sage grouse’s belly. He opened and closed his mouth, then
he turned his head and vomited.
John stepped away, surveying the area to give
his deputy time to pull himself
together.
Oscar tugged his shirt from his pants and swiped
at his mouth, revealing more stomach than a woman pregnant with twins.
When the deputy had composed himself, he led John through a jagged opening in the fence that
surrounded the quarry. Beer bottles, cigarette butts, and discarded condoms
littered the path as he followed Oscar deeper onto the scarred land. Posted
warning signs had been spray painted with graffiti.
As they drew closer to the spot, buzzards
strutted over the ground, their wings and clawed talons, creating a small dust storm.
“Shoo.”
Oscar waved his arms, trying to scatter the birds as they pecked at the drop
cloth.
John squatted then drew back the drape. Long
black hair obscured the face. Using a pen, he lifted the dirt caked strands. The
skin around the one visible eye socket had been gouged down to the muscle. The
probable death wound—a long jagged gash across the neck.
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Hi, Martha. I hope you enjoy Lakota Blood Moon. Thanks for stopping by.
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