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The Canadian wilderness can be deadly
A gripping True North Heroes romance
Solving his sister’s murder is Mountie Jacob Henry’s only priority—until his daring helicopter rescue of Grace Finch leaves them stranded in the Canadian wilderness. Now with a storm raging and escaped convicts in pursuit, Jacob and Grace must rely on each other for survival. But when Jacob discovers Grace’s deadly secret, can he look past it in the fight for their lives?
MAGGIE K. BLACK is an award-winning journalist and romantic suspense author with an insatiable love of traveling the world. She has lived in the American South, Europe and the Middle East. She now makes her home in Canada with her history-teacher husband, their two beautiful girls and a small but mighty dog. Maggie enjoys connecting with her readers at maggiekblack.com.
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Undercover Holiday Fiancée
The Littlest Target
Rescuing His Secret Child
Cold Case Secrets
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Amish Hideout
Military K-9 Unit
Standing Fast
True North Bodyguards
Kidnapped at Christmas
Rescue at Cedar Lake
Protective Measures
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Cold Case Secrets
Maggie K. Black
ISBN: 978-1-474-09685-0
COLD CASE SECRETS
© 2019 Mags Storey
Published in Great Britain 2019
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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“Stop! Police! Let her go!”
Jacob aimed high and fired. The criminal froze like an animal caught in headlights. But Grace didn’t stop for a second. She spun back with her elbows high and struck Cutter in the face. The criminal bellowed and grabbed his nose. She broke free and pelted down the rock face toward Jacob.
“Jacob!” she shouted. “He’s got a semiautomatic! He just needs to reload!”
He ran toward her, reaching the rock face just as she reached the edge. She looked down. “How do I get down from here?”
“Jump! I’ll catch you!”
Her eyes scanned the drop, and then her chin rose. “Okay. I’m coming!”
He shoved his gun back in his holster. She took a deep breath and leaped.
But even as she jumped, Jacob saw the stocky figure of one of the convicts ahead, a fresh gun clutched in his hand. His heart stopped.
He had one convict ahead of them, one behind them, a forest to his right, a rock wall to his left...and a woman he had to protect with his life.
As this summer ended, I was sitting outside on a picnic table, working on the book in the hazy warm night. A man came by and asked me what I was working on. So I told him I wrote books for Love Inspired Suspense and started telling him about the Henry brothers. He told me that he was an RCMP officer and that two of his close friends and colleagues were recently killed in the line of duty just a few days earlier. I folded up my laptop and he told me about his friends—one male and one female officer—what they’d been like as officers, and what had driven them each to serve in law enforcement. Then after a while, he started telling funny stories about the line of duty too,