Live to See Tomorrow (44 page)
She believed him as she gazed at him standing there. He had so many different faces. Guardian, warrior, crown prince of never-never land. Memories were flooding back to her of Cameron in a dozen different scenes since he’d come into her life. That first moment when she’d seen him before that fireplace in what she’d thought was a hallucination, the moment when he’d lifted her from the hot spring, the moment in the Mercedes when he’d first touched her. How many other such moments could be on the horizon? “If we don’t kill each other.”
He chuckled. “Point taken. But it’s not likely.” His laughter faded. “I don’t think I could bear it.” He started to leave.
“Wait.”
He looked back at her.
“I once asked you a question. You never really answered me. Is Shambhala a real place? Is there a true Shangri-La?”
“What do you think?” His smile was brilliant, telling nothing, promising everything. “Come with me and I’ll take you to see for yourself.”
The next moment, he was gone.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IRIS JOHANSEN is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Silencing Eve, Hunting Eve, Taking Eve, Sleep No More, What Doesn’t Kill You, Bonnie, Quinn, Eve, Chasing the Night, Eight Days to Live, Blood Game, Deadlock, Dark Summer, Pandora’s Daughter, Quicksand, Killer Dreams, On the Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, No One to Trust,
and more. And with her son, Roy Johansen, she has coauthored
Close Your Eyes, Shadow Zone, Storm Cycle,
and
Silent Thunder
. Visit her at
www.irisjohansen.com
and on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/OfficialIrisJohansen
.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
LIVE TO SEE TOMORROW.
Copyright © 2014 by Johansen Publishing LLLP. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by Rob Grom
Cover photograph © Shuhui Yang
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johansen, Iris.
Live to see tomorrow / Iris Johansen.—First Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-02004-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02003-1 (e-book)
1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Officials and employees—Fiction. 2. Women intelligence officers—Fiction. 3. Kidnapping—Tibet—Fiction. 4. Women journalists—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3560.O275L58 2014
813'.54—dc23
2013047079
e-ISBN 9781250020031
First Edition: April 2014