Please welcome my guest blogger Lynn Burke with Divulging Secrets.
New from Lynn Burke!
Divulging Secrets
by Lynn Burke
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Art Work: Jay Aheer, Simply Defined Art
Keywords: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
Candace
Lake's testimony against her father landed her in the Witness Protection
program. With a new identity comes a new beginning, one based on lies and
loneliness. How can she find someone to share her future with when a
relationship without trust at its foundation won’t stand the storms of
life?
Tom Berkley didn’t expect his new tenant to make him
question his solitary lifestyle in the backwoods of Maine. He also didn’t
expect to be caught up in the secrets of her past that bring his own tragic
ones to the forefront of his mind.
The sizzling chemistry between them can’t be ignored,
but when the threats from Candace's turbulent past catch up with her, can she
trust Tom enough to protect her from the price on her head?
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EXCERPT:
I followed the two marshals carrying the four suitcases I’d
been allowed to pack. Nothing personal, no documents. No electronics. I had
been forced to leave behind Butter, my old tabby that I had gotten for my tenth
birthday. The locket my late mother had inscribed with my name and gifted to me
on my sweet sixteenth birthday still lay inside its velvet box, left with one
final longing, loving gaze, same as I’d done with her in a satin-lined coffin
five years earlier.
Boston’s spring air chilled me through as we stepped
outside, and I gladly climbed into the dark-windowed sedan, wrapped my sweater
tight around me, and allowed myself one last look at the condo Papa had bought
for me.
Papa.
My throat thickened, and welling tears blurred my vision. I
had unknowingly helped him smuggle millions of dollars’ worth of stolen gems
and jewelry to and from overseas.
I had knowingly helped put him behind bars in return for
leniency in my own sentencing. But freedom had cost me my life.
Everyone and everything I had known for twenty-five years
lay in my past, and a new beginning loomed before me. Where, I had no clue—and
I couldn’t bring myself to care. My luxurious condo … gone. My group of friends
… gone. The gym I’d been going to for yoga classes since moving to Boston for
college … gone. The diploma I had received from Harvard Law School with Lila
Scorzoni written on it would never hang on my wall.
I followed the marshals aboard a small, private jet inside a
hangar at Boston’s Logan. Settling onto one of the seats, I tipped my head back
and shut my eyes.
The knot in my stomach had twisted months earlier when my
lawyer suggested testifying against Papa to save my own ass. The nauseating
twist had yet to relent, but at least I’d lost those damn freshman twenty I’d
picked up over the years spent in college.
The only good thing to come from the fucked-up situation
that was my life.
I heaved a sigh and turned my head, opening my eyes as the
plane sped down the runway. We lifted into the air, leaving my home behind.
Forever.
Drawing easy breaths had proven difficult since finding out
Papa wasn’t the successful business man—honest one—I’d always thought. His communications
business at the office building downtown worked as a front for his shady
dealings. The board of six who had helped to oversee said company, nothing more
than a band of thieves.
Witness protection.
My mind chewed on the two words, but I wondered how
protected I would be. Four of Papa’s associates were in the slammer, thanks to
me, and two who had last been seen overseas—one in Rome, the other in
Paris—still wandered free. Two men with the connections and motive to do away
with me. Money at their disposal and without doubt, thugs or hitmen on their
payroll.
Where could the WITSEC plant me that would be safe from such
men?
Nowhere, I feared.
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