Hey everyone! Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Sandra Brown's newest paperback release - Mean Streak! I have a great excerpt from the book to share with you, and don't forget to enter the giveaway! To follow the rest of the tour, click on the banner above.
Mean Streak
Author: Sandra Brown
Genre: Adult Romantic Suspense
Release Date: August 19, 2014 (February 10, 2015 - paperback release)
Publisher: Grand Central
Description:
While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won’t even tell her his name. She’s determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive.
Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can’t turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law.
As her husband’s deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer.
“No.”
“Please.”
“No!” His shout echoed off the walls of the confined space. A few seconds passed, then he said in a low voice, “Trust me. You don’t.”
His strained enunciation, his unyielding expression intimidated her. She backed away from him. “Perhaps you’re right. Maybe I don’t want to know.” Looking around frantically, she said, “In fact, why did I even come here with you?”
“That, I will answer.” He took measured steps toward her. “I didn’t drag you off that balcony and force you to come with me. But I would have if necessary.” He let that sink in, then took a step nearer and kept closing in until his face hovered above hers.
“If I’d had to, I would have wrapped you in bailing wire and carried you off. Because I’d rather see you shy away from me, rather see you cringing with fright and mistrust like you are now. I’d rather see you any other way except dead.”
It wasn’t poetry, but it was profound. Her heart expanded with emotion. She reached up to touch his cheek.
But before it could make contact, he caught her wrist and held her hand away from him. When he finally let it go, he motioned down the hall and ordered gruffly, “Go to bed. Lock the door if it makes you feel safer.”
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He waited.
She didn’t move.
She remained staring up at him with eyes that were calm, accepting, entrusting. The opposite of what they should be.
“Okay,” he growled, “you asked for this.”
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times
bestsellers, including DEADLINE(2013), LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL
(2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008),
PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT
(2004), & HELLO, DARKNESS (2003).
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program “PM Magazine.”
In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.
Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program “PM Magazine.”
In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.
Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Giveaway: (5) Winners will each get a signed personalized copy of MEAN STREAK in Trade PB and swag + a dozen buttercream cookies from Cheryl's
Thanks for being on the tour, Steph! :)
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ReplyDeleteI've had my eye on Mean Streak for forever! :D
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Sure sounds like one I'd like to read. TFS.
ReplyDeleteLove the excerpt! So can't wait to read this book!
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