Shock Wave. Dana Mentink

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      TRAPPED…WITH A KILLER?

      When an earthquake rips through San Francisco, the last person journalist Sage Harrington expects to run into is ex-soldier Trey Black. After what they survived in Afghanistan, she doesn’t know if she can face him again. But now they’re trapped in the bowels of a ramshackle opera house on a mission to find Sage’s missing cousin. And they may not be the only ones. Someone is desperate to keep them from discovering the truth. With time running out and devastation and danger all around, Sage and Trey must put their trust in each other to make it out alive.

      Stormswept: Finding true love in the midst of nature’s fury

      “You need to get out of here.”

      “Is that an order, Captain?”

      “A strong suggestion.”

      “And if I don’t comply?”

      “Then I will help you to do that.” Trey’s eyes glittered in the darkness.

      “You’re not army anymore.”

      “No, ma’am. Just a carpenter, but I will see you to the exit, one way or another.”

      “If I don’t cooperate, what do you intend to do about it?” Sage fired off the challenge, her gut tightening at the look that rose in his face.

      He stood, feet slightly apart, hands loose at his sides. “Sage, you need to leave this theater for your own safety. If I have to carry you out kicking and screaming, I am prepared for that contingency.”

      She heard the hardened resolution in his voice. Dimples and charming drawl aside, she knew he would not hesitate, and she was no match for his size and strength. She would lose this battle.

      But not the war.

      DANA MENTINK

      lives in California, where the weather is golden and the cheese is divine. Her family includes two girls (affectionately nicknamed Yogi and Boo Boo). Papa Bear works for the fire department; he met Dana doing a dinner theater production of The Velveteen Rabbit. Ironically, their parts were husband and wife.

      Dana is a 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year finalist for romantic suspense and an award winner in the Pacific Northwest Writers Literary Contest. Her novel Betrayal in the Badlands won a 2010 RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award. She has enjoyed writing a mystery series for Barbour Books and more than ten novels to date for the Love Inspired Suspense line.

      She spent her college years competing in speech and debate tournaments all around the country. Besides writing, she busies herself teaching elementary school and reviewing books for her blog. Mostly, she loves to be home with her family, including a dog with social-anxiety problems, a chubby box turtle and a quirky parakeet.

      Dana loves to hear from her readers via her website at www.danamentink.com.

      Shock Wave

      Dana Mentink

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

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      The Lord is King. Let the nations tremble!

      He sits on this throne between the cherubim.

      Let the whole earth quake!

      —Psalms 99:1

      To those emergency workers worldwide who are the hands and feet of God in times of disaster.

      Contents

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

       CHAPTER NINETEEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       DEAR READER

       QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

       EXCERPT

      ONE

      The floor lurched under Trey Black’s feet. Wooden planks, crippled by age and neglect, groaned like arthritic joints forced into movement. He waited one second, two.

      Another quick jolt and the old Imperial Opera House stilled again.

      The second jerk took him momentarily back to another place, to Afghanistan, to the smell of sun-scorched earth and gun oil, sweat and the tangible scent of fear.

      He stood motionless