White Dawn: A Military Romantic Suspense Novel (30 page)

“If it has Carmen in it,” Garrett told
him, “the family must be as rare as dragon’s breath.”

Silence gripped them as everyone stared
at Garrett. Carmen could feel her back straightening
defensively.

Then Calli laughed. “Oh, you’re going to
fit in perfectly!” she told Garrett.

Garrett stepped to one side of the faint
trail, but he didn’t let go of her hand. Carmen looked at the
clearing ahead of them with amusement. “This is the five star hotel
suite you promised me?” she asked.

It was a tiny clearing and sitting in
the middle of it was an even smaller tent made of dark green nylon.
It had weathered the hurricane surprisingly well. Three of the
ropes had come adrift, making it sag in the middle, but there had
to be a lot of equipment inside which had kept it in place. There
were stones blackened by fire at the front of it. But there was
nothing else in the clearing.

“It even has running water,” Garrett
said with a smile. “Listen.”

From the other side of the clearing,
farther into the trees, she could hear a little creek running. It
was possibly a storm run-off and would dry up after the worst of
the hurricane flooding ceased. “A bath!” she sighed, as if the
creek was really a hot tub in disguise. “I think I might
faint!”

Garrett pulled her to him. “Daniel said
he’d stay point man for the unit for another twelve hours and he
offered me this tent in exchange. It’s not the Astoria, but it’s
ours and we have twelve uninterrupted hours all to ourselves. No
audience. No media. No one.”

Just before they had left
Las Piedras
Grandes
, the media had descended upon the disaster area in
droves, all aboard commercial and private helicopters. Someone had
tipped them off. Carmen had been sitting in the open door of the
Blackhawk, letting the painkillers Garrett had given her kick in.
Calli had produced dry clothes, that were only one size too big.
With the painkillers and change of clothes, Carmen had started to
feel almost human once more. She had watched the first of the
helicopters hover to land, a cameraman hanging out of the open door
and filming. She headed for the nose of the helicopter, intending
to hide behind it. But Garrett had been right behind her and she
had bumped up against him.

“They’re not here for you,” Garrett said
very softly, his arm going around her. “They don’t even know you’re
here.”

“It’ll take them five minutes to figure
out who I am,” she said just as softly back. “Then they
will
be here for me.”

Duardo, who stood just to one side
giving orders to a group of soldiers, dismissed his men and turned
to look at her. “Why don’t you get out of here?” he suggested.

“How?” Garrett asked sharply.

Duardo whistled and a private came
running up to him. “Sir?”

“Slide over to the Blackhawk, Calderon.
Give the pilot my compliments and tell him he’s to drop these two
wherever they want to go.”

“And I know exactly where that is,”
Garrett murmured, but had refused to tell her where they were
going, except to say that it was a five star hotel suite.

The Blackhawk had touched down on a
deserted strip of road, a mile away from here and Garrett had led
her through the woods to this tiny clearing.

Carmen linked her arms around his neck.
“It’s better than a honeymoon,” she said.

“You mean that, Escobedo?” he asked
softly, his eyes warming.

Her heart ached. “Oh, yes.” Happiness
bubbled through her. “I have you alone and you want to be here.
It’s perfect.”

His lips touched hers. “I’ll find other
times like this,” he told her. “Lots of them. As many as I
can.”

“Promise?”

“Cross my heart.” He lifted his lips and
his eyes met hers. “Wait, you’ve already done that.”

Then he kissed her and Carmen sighed
with contentment.

She was home.
Really
home.

The next book in The Vistaria Affair series
is
Silver Noon
, which will be released in 2016.
In the meantime, if you would like more hot, sexy romantic
suspense, try:

To find out what happened to her sister,
Sherry just has to go with Mason Hayward to the ends of the
earth…oh, and give him utter control over her mind, body and
soul.
New York cop Sherry Abandonato cashes in her savings and dashes to
Ningaloo in remote northwest Western Australia to find her sister,
who disappeared ten days ago.
The only one with the skill to guide her to Derremawan is Mason
Hayward, once an official guide with a reputation for getting
people out of trouble, but now the town’s bad man.
In a searing afternoon of unexpected passion, Mason strikes a
bargain. He’ll get her to Derremawan, if she agrees to go there
with him unconditionally—on his terms and his conditions.
Sherry is astonished to find herself agreeing to the insane
bargain, and worse, responding eagerly to the idea of three days of
Mason Hayward taking charge under the hot Australian sun.
WARNING:  This short romantic suspense
story contains frequent, explicit and frank sex scenes and sexual
language.  It includes heart-stopping sexual scenes and light
bondage. Do not proceed beyond this point if hot love scenes offend
you.
PS:  Don’t try this at home -- the
neighbours may not understand...and the police certainly
won't.
This book is part of the Go Get ‘Em Women
collection:
Delly’s Last Night
The Royal Talisman
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
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Ningaloo Nights
contains loads of sex
, some
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,
and a beautifully written happily ever
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A
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, indeed!”
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Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best
Selling Author. She writes erotic vampire romances, hot romantic
suspense, paranormal and urban fantasy romances. She has published
over 80 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including
Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been
nominated four times for Book Of The Year and
Byzantine
Heartbreak
was a 2012 winner. She has been a national magazine
editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan
University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes
taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock
Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian,
she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former
professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him
on-line.
Her website can be found at
http://TracyCooperPosey.com
.
Tracy appreciates hearing from readers and can be reached at
[email protected]
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Blood Knot
Southampton Swindle
Broken Promise
Vale
Amor Meus
Blood Stone
Blood Unleashed
Blood Drive
Blood Revealed (Upcoming)

Bannockburn Binding
Wait
Byzantine Heartbreak
Viennese Agreement
Romani Armada

Spartan Resistance

Kiss Across Time
Kiss Across Swords
Time Kissed Moments

Kiss Across Chains
Kiss Across Deserts

The Branded Rose Prophecy

Carson’s Night
Beauty’s Beasts
Harvest of Holidays
Sabrina’s Clan (Upcoming)

Beth’s Acceptance
Mia’s Return
Sera’s Gift
Cora’s Secret

Solstice Surrender
Eva’s Last Dance

Red Leopard
Black Heart
Blue Knight
White Dawn
Silver Noon (Upcoming)
Golden Day (Upcoming)

The Royal Talisman
Delly’s Last Night
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
Sian’s Run (Upcoming)

Diana By The Moon
Heart of Vengeance
The Perilous Maiden (Upcoming)
To Soothe a Savage Heart (Upcoming)
The Heart of the Enemy (Upcoming)
The Cherlebury Rose (Upcoming)
The Duchess of Winter (Upcoming)
Despite The Sands Of Time (Upcoming)

Forbidden
Dangerous Beauty
Rhys Davies’ untitled story (Upcoming)

Fatal Wild Child
Dead Again
Dead Double
Terror Stash
Thrilling Affair

Lucifer’s Lover
An Inconvenient Lover

Chronicles of the Lost Years
The Case of the Reluctant Agent

For reviews, excerpts, and more about each
title, visit Tracy’s site and click on each title in turn:
http://tracycooperposey.com/books/tracys-trilogies-series/

This is an original
publication of Tracy Cooper-Posey
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FIRST EDITION: June 2015

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