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\"broken-alpha<\/a>The hardest battles are fought within<\/em><\/address>\n

Shattered<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter and bail bondsman in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He\u2019s tempted by her beauty\u2014but he knows from experience that anyone desperate enough to live in his building is damaged goods. Besides, he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.<\/p>\n

Desperate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sara Davis is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She\u2019s not an abused wife, and she\u2019s not a criminal. But she does have a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can\u2019t risk telling him the secrets she\u2019s hiding. There\u2019s just too much at stake.<\/p>\n

Driven to desire\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But Quinn must get closer to Sara when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and he discovers that there is something more complex and dangerous to her than he thought. Now, both Quinn and Sara will have to expose their true feelings\u2014as well as their fragile hearts\u2014if they hope their love will survive\u2026<\/p>\n

Excerpt<\/em><\/p>\n

He opened the door\u2014<\/p>\n

And stopped dead in his tracks as somebody all but fell into his arms. Somebody\u2026a woman. And not Theresa. He caught her just above her elbows, automatically steadying her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she said, her voice soft and low. Then she lifted her face and Quinn found himself gazing into the biggest, brownest eyes he\u2019d ever seen in his life.<\/p>\n

Feeling a little dazed, he studied her face while she stammered out another apology. Quinn barely heard it. He was too busy staring at her mouth. A very pretty mouth, a cupid\u2019s bow mouth slicked with deep, vibrant red.<\/p>\n

Under his hands, he could feel silken smooth skin and unable to resist, he stroked a thumb along her inner arm. Her skin was soft, soft and warm. He was also pretty sure she had the creamiest, most flawless skin imaginable.<\/p>\n

Her shoulder-length hair was a shade caught between blonde and brown, nondescript, but for some reason, he found himself thinking about tangling his fingers in that hair and holding her head still while he kissed that red-slicked mouth.<\/p>\n

Well, hello\u2026<\/em>he could all but feet his libido kicking up as he stared at that mouth. Every last one of his senses tuned in on her\u2014 The way she looked\u2026sex and sin. The way she smelled\u2026sex and sin. The way she sounded\u2026sex and sin. The way she felt\u2026the way she might taste.<\/p>\n

Sex and sin.<\/p>\n

He knew it without a doubt. She\u2019d taste like sex and sin. His mouth was all but watering.<\/p>\n

\u201cAhhh\u2026excuse me,\u201d she said, tugging against his light hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cUh\u2026yeah.\u201d He uncurled his fingers and let go, although he hated every second of it. She immediately backed away, putting a good five feet in between them and eying him nervously.<\/p>\n

In that moment, he was acutely aware of the fact that he hadn\u2019t bothered shaving that morning, or the morning before. He was also acutely aware of the wrinkled state of his gray T-shirt and the worn jeans he wore.<\/p>\n

He hadn\u2019t gotten into the habit of wearing the unofficial uniform worn by most of the guys who worked for Gearing, but he\u2019d swapped out the black T-shirt that read Bond Enforcement for a plain one.<\/p>\n

Wearing those particular shirts outside of work had ended up causing him a headache or two so when he remembered, he changed out of them before leaving the office.<\/p>\n

She continued to stare at him, her face expressionless and her eyes measuring. She might have just continued to stare at him indefinitely if Theresa hadn\u2019t come bustling down the hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuinn?\u201d Tearing his eyes away from the unknown woman, he smiled at his landlord. It no longer seemed so weird to smile at somebody\u2014as in he didn\u2019t worry his face might crack if he wasn\u2019t careful. Still, the smile on his face did feel odd.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, Theresa. I didn\u2019t know you had company.\u201d<\/p>\n

She beamed at him. \u201cThis isn\u2019t company. This is your new neighbor. She just moved in to the upstairs apartment. Sara\u2026I\u2019d like you to meet Quinn Rafferty. Quinn, this is Sara Davis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sara. Neighbor. Staring into Sara\u2019s dark brown eyes, his heart sank just a little.<\/p>\n

Great.<\/p>\n

Some people collected books. Some people collected knickknacks. Some people collected coins. Theresa collected lost souls, as evidenced by the fact that he was living in her basement after she\u2019d charmed him into changing her tire outside Dierburg\u2019s a few months earlier.<\/p>\n

The last woman to stay in that apartment had ended up being a battered woman hiding out from her ex. Before that, it had been a girl who\u2019d been all of nineteen, with two kids and a third on the way. When that one had left, she\u2019d ended up stealing from Theresa and skipping out on the piddling amount of rent that Theresa had coming.<\/p>\n

If Sara Davis was living in Theresa\u2019s upstairs apartment, that made her pretty much off limits. It didn\u2019t matter that his dormant sex drive was all of sudden flaring up on him.<\/p>\n

The last thing Quinn needed to be around was another lost soul, not when he still struggled to find his own.<\/p>\n

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