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Greetings! Welcome to this week’s MFRW Book Hooks blog hop. Technical issues have prevented me recently from participating in the weekly Book Hooks event, but I’m back today... And to celebrate, I’m giving away two free copies of my featured book Getaway Girl to randomly selected people who leave comments.

Blurb

Be careful what you wish for

All Peg wants is a break, a bit of adventure, a relief from her mundane existence in the bucolic but boring Yorkshire hamlet of Kirkby Malzeard. When dashing, sophisticated journalist Lionel Hayes saunters into the pub where she's tending bar, Peg suspects that he was just the sort of man to fulfill her fantasies of escape.

The seductive Lionel, however, is not what he seems. Before she knows it, Peg is a hostage, roped and gagged, speeding away from the scene of a daring crime. Lionel is armed and dangerous, but somehow Peg still wants him – regardless of the consequences.

The Hook

His scent surrounded her, the fancy cologne mingled with musky sweat  a hint of tobacco. It muddled her thoughts. Peg fought to slow her heartbeat, tried to ignore the tightening pressure in her nipples and the dampness between her legs. He’s the enemy, she told herself. Remember that. Don’t let him get to you. But when he grasped her forearms to help her right herself, she couldn’t suppress the shiver of excitement that ran through her.

He felt it, too. He searched her face, trying to read her. She composed her features into a bland mask. He shrugged and picked up the revolver.

“There it is,” called Jack from the front. He whistled. “Damn, this looks like a great hideout.” The side door squealed as Jack pulled it open. “Come on, let’s get the goods inside.”

Lionel handed out the two kit bags that he’d been leaning against. Jack could hardly lift them.

Jack stuck his head back into the van and leered at Peg. “Well, I don’t think that we need her anymore, do we? Now that we’re safe and snug here in the middle of nowhere.”

Peg swallowed hard, fear slamming into her gut. “Well, you don’t know where the key is, or how to start the generator, or the trick to getting the well pump working. Plus I imagine you’re hungry, but you’re not really the type to cook for yourselves, are you?”

“What’s the rush?” asked Lionel. “She could still be useful. We can dispose of her any time she becomes inconvenient.” He extracted a folding knife from his inside jacket pocket and flicked it open. Despite his response to his partner, Peg thought for an instant that he was about to do her in then and there, but he merely reached down and sawed at the twine binding her ankles. “She might know where we can get another vehicle, for one thing. The police are going to be looking for this one.”

“Actually, my gran had an old Mini. It should still be in the shed, though no one’s driven it for years. I might be able get it going.”

Peg remembered her dad letting her take the car out onto the country lanes when she was learning to drive, over her mum’s loud objections. She’d just turned sixteen. So long ago, when they were all together. Before. She shook her head, scattering the tears that had gathered in her eyes.

“Are you all right, Margaret?” Lionel appeared to have noticed her damp eyes. He helped her out of the van.

Her legs wobbled after her long confinement. She could hardly put one foot in front of the other. “Oh, just peachy. I love being roped, gagged, dragged off, threatened—the key’s above the lintel, on the right—I can’t imagine anything better.”

“Well, darling, I have to say that you looked pretty fetching in those bonds. I may very well tie you up again after dinner, just for fun.”

He took her arm, steadying her as he walked her up the path to the door. Peg glared at him. Lionel grinned back, the same knowing grin that had drawn her to him when they first met. Was that really only yesterday?

And now it was having the same effect, melting her even as she tried to remain furious and cold. When he bent to kiss her, she couldn’t help herself. She simply dissolved.

 

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