Casket Girl
by Maggie
Mae Gallagher
GENRE:
Paranormal Romantic Suspense
BLURB:
All he wants is to
find a killer...
FBI Special Agent
Josh Blake has seen some bizarre cases in his day. His latest case is one for
the record books. He has multiple homicides, corpses drained of every ounce of
blood, and no suspects. When rumors surface that the French Quarter may be
hiding an insidious monster bent on drenching the streets in dead bodies, he
must suspend logic and place his trust in the mystical.
She wants a fresh
start...
Isabelle Toussánt
left her family home in the bayou five year ago, cutting all ties with her
abusive whiskey swilling stepfather, to forge a new life in the French Quarter.
Now a successful business owner of Madam Toussánt’s Mystical Gifts in Jackson
Square, and a Seer with voodoo roots. The foundation of her new life shatters
when one of her employee’s winds up dead and she is dragged into a deadly game
where she becomes the target of a serial killer.
A passion neither
expected...
Determined to stop
the brutal slayings, Josh must rely on the beautiful Isabelle who makes him
question everything he has ever known about life and death all while
surrendering to a desire hotter than a Bayou night. When Isabelle disappears
without a trace, with tourists flocking to the party capital for Halloween, and
the body count continues to mount, Josh will be forced to push beyond the
boundaries of what he thinks is possible and rescue the woman he loves before
it's too late.
Excerpt:
“Miss Toussánt.” Captain Tremayne
addressed her above the din and chaos.
She swung around, her long dark
hair, the silky wave of it, shimmering and rippling as she faced the captain.
Josh took one look at Miss Isabelle Toussánt and felt like a thoroughbred had
just kicked him in the stomach.
She was exotic, with caramel skin
and looking taut and lean in her formfitting tank that displayed delicate arms.
He sucked in a sharp breath when she glanced at the captain. Cat eyes. The
mahogany color reminded Josh of his chestnut mare as a child, Daisy. They were
framed by black brows. One of them was currently raised in his direction as she
spoke to the captain.
“Yes, Captain Tremayne? Can I
interest you in a cup of coffee?” Her voice reminded him of a shot of smooth,
single malt whiskey.
“Miss Toussánt, this is Agent Josh
Blake with the FBI. He has some questions, if you’re up for them.”
A wounded shadow passed through her
magnetic eyes for a moment before she shifted her gaze toward him. The
unabridged effect of her stare was electric and compelling, until he found
himself immersed in her eyes. Unexpected lust zinged along his spine, not that
he would give in to the temptation she presented, but his body resonated with
the siren’s call her body echoed.
“Agent, can I interest you in some
coffee?” She held up a glass carafe of steaming brew, already half empty.
“Not right now, Miss Toussánt. Thank
you for the offer, though,” he murmured gently but firmly. It smelled like
heaven, but he didn’t want to coddle her. She needed to understand he was in
charge and would dig into her background no matter how sweetly her hips swished
as she walked.
“Please call me Isabelle,” she
offered with a slight smile, but it didn’t spread to her eyes. No amount of
coffee or alcohol would erase the vision of death. He knew what that first time
was like, though, the horror of it, the way it twisted your insides. Seeing for
the first time how fragile life truly was made you face your own mortality.
And, more important, you began to understand that some individuals just wanted
to watch the world burn.
“Is there somewhere we can talk
privately?” he asked, assessing her response, both verbal and non-verbal,
ignoring the intense desire churning in his gut as he studied her. If there was
one thing Miss Toussánt was, it was off-limits. It didn’t matter how long it
had been since he’d done the horizontal tango. If there was one thing he was strictly
by the book on, it was that he never blurred the lines in a case. The evidence
either convicted a person or set them free. As it was, she was a witness to a
horrific murder, possibly more.
There was something off about her
that he couldn’t quite put his finger on. The way her eyes darted nervously
around, and she kept wetting her pouty bottom lip. It could be signs of trauma
and shock from discovering the body, or it could be she was hiding something.
Perhaps she’d witnessed the incident and feared the killer would come back for
her if he knew.
“Certainly, follow me.” Isabelle
returned the carafe to the coffeemaker, wiped her palms along her skirt and
nodded toward a doorway in the far corner.
He would have followed her into hell
if it meant listening to her sultry voice some more and siphoning whatever
information she had on this case.
AUTHOR BIO:
Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and
reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if
only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the
romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never
did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St.
Louis with an M.A. in History.
Maggie
is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres.
She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers. A total geek at her
core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or
spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two
furry felines.
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