Dangerous Reunion (HQR Romantic Suspense) by Marilyn Pappano

Dangerous Reunion (HQR Romantic Suspense) by Marilyn Pappano

Author:Marilyn Pappano [Pappano, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Law Enforcement, Romantic Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Mystery & Intrigue, Violence & Crime Story, Protection & Safety, Action & Adventure, Dangerous & Deadly, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Clean & Wholesome, Suspenseful Fiction
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense; Original Edition
Published: 2020-06-01T04:00:00+00:00


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Sweat trickled down Yashi’s spine as she tried to calculate how long it would take them to find Mrs. Brown’s cabin, talk to her and come back again, but she knew enough about scent hounds and searching and woods to know she didn’t have a clue. Ben and the others were covering rugged ground, led by a dog who had to separate his particular target from all the other thousands of smells out there. It was miserably hot and humid, putting extra demands on their bodies. The place Mrs. Brown called home might be well hidden, or she might not be there, or she might be too frightened to cooperate. There were snakes, spiders, scorpions and an abundance of biting, stinging insects, to say nothing of rocks to fall off, holes to fall into and scrubby brush to scrape raw any skin it touched.

She’d been rocking but had stopped, tired of mistaking the slight creak of the wood for something important. She’d heard a dog a while ago, like the baying she’d heard on television and movies, but she hadn’t been able to pinpoint where it came from. It just seemed to echo off the trees, and it had made her heart race at the same time her stomach knotted.

Now she was pacing the length of the side porch, pivoting at the north end, when a sound caught her attention. It was soft, rustly, not stealthy. A heavy layer of leaves muffling the sound of feet?

She hustled to the back steps, and the noise expanded to include panting, the slap of branches and a distinctly female grunt. Slowly she started down the steps, reaching the bottom just as the branches of the red cedar swayed, pushed out of the way two feet above the ground by a big tan head with ears dragging and jowls swaying. Fifteen feet behind Booger came Dusty, her appearance confirming this had been no walk in the park, and behind her...

Yashi’s breath caught. Her heart rate increased so quickly that she got light-headed, and it seemed a balloon was about to burst in her chest. Ben cleared the cedar, lowered his head to speak to the boy he was carrying, then set him on the grass.

“Oh Theo.” Tears welled. Yashi had been praying, but she’d lacked faith that God was listening, that her pleas were eloquent enough to get her little cousin back, and oh, thank You, Jesus, here he was in his favorite pajamas and his favorite outgrown sneakers that Brit had cut out the toes so he could wear them as house shoes.

A cry catching in her throat, she started toward him, and he began running, too. But when she would have swept him into her arms and swung him around, holding him tightly enough to feel his heart beating safely all the way through her own heart, he skidded to a stop, and his small determined fist made contact with her jaw.

Yashi stood frozen. He was a little boy without



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