Foster Justice (26 page)

Authors: Colleen Shannon

BOOK: Foster Justice

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With a curt, “Don't move,” he stalked back to his SUV, to run her I.D. She stifled another groan. It had almost taken an act of Congress to get her license back last time, not to mention thousands in fees and a good traffic attorney. Once he saw how many tickets she had.... Nevertheless, she was stunned when he returned to her side of the car with a pair of handcuffs.

“Get out of the car, please.” He stepped back slightly, appraising her with eyes she knew were arctic behind the shades.

She looked at the start button on her dashboard. She had one of the new ignitions, the kind that started only when the key was in the car. Her foot was on the brake, so she only had to punch the start button and she suspected she could quite literally leave him in the dust.

“Be sensible, Mercy Magdalena,” she could hear her Irish grandmother pleading from the grave. This was not a good beginning to her first field investigation, and fleeing an officer of the law would not endear her to her federal employers. She looked at him from the corner of her eye. Besides, she might need some help from the local constabulary in looking for Yancy.

He'd stiffened alertly as if he'd read her mind. His icy politeness softened to a Texas drawl that was somehow more menacing. “Please, do it. Resisting arrest carries a much longer sentence than speeding and I'd purely love to buy your car at the police auction.”

Colleen Shannon grew up in West Texas where the skies are as limitless as the tales told by its many colorful residents. Surrounded by oil men, lawyers, and drillers in a community that has produced two presidents and many national leaders and businessmen, Colleen grew up reading and writing stories of every kind. After college when she married and was expecting her first child, she used a scrap computer to write her first romance. She sold it herself in less than a year, and at the age of twenty-six began a new career and never looked back. The strength of her first book led to her nomination by
Romantic Times
as Best New Historical Author. She went on to win or be nominated for many other awards, and her fifteen single title releases have appeared on numerous bestseller lists. She has well over a million books in print.

Her newest release is from Kensington, a romantic suspense, her first published contemporary. It is planned as the first in a series about modern Texas Rangers, another interest of Colleen's because her ancestor, a Texas Ranger, was one of the first people buried in Brown County cemetery. Another of her ancestors was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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First Electronic Edition: December 2014

ISBN: 978-1-6018-3293-1

First Print Edition: December 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-60183-294-8
ISBN-10: 1-60183-294-X