Authors: Amber Lea Easton

Reckless Endangerment (41 page)

“No, you don’t,” Dalton said, a familiar gleam in his eyes that reminded her exactly of his dad’s. “I’m not a baby, you know. I know stuff.”

“Oh, you do, do you?” Michael asked with a wink in her direction.

“Well, we’d better get you out of the rain.” She squeezed her stepson’s hand, unable to believe how lucky she was.

“We can handle a little rain,” Dalton said with his toothless grin as he looked up at his dad. “Right, dad? It’s kind of fun.”

“Yeah, it’s kind of fun, isn’t it?” she asked.

“God help us all,” he said.

With wife and child on his lap, he maneuvered the chair toward the tent even as Devon raced out to help them with the wind plastering her skirt to her thighs.

Hope tilted her head back and laughed at the storm clouds. Yeah, they’d made it home. Finally. Let it rain.

THE END

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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

Although this is a romantic suspense novel about two fictional characters, Hope and Michael, whose love story took center stage, two important issues were touched upon: post traumatic stress disorder for our veterans and human trafficking.

To find out more about PTSD in veterans, please visit
http://www.ptsd.va.gov/

To discover more about human trafficking within the USA, please visit
http://www.combathumantrafficking.org
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amber Lea Easton is a multi-published fiction and nonfiction author. For twenty years, she's worked in the fields of journalism and marketing.

Smart is sexy, according to Easton, which is why she writes about strong female characters who have their flaws and challenges but ultimately persevere. She currently has three romantic suspense novels out in the world, Reckless Endangerment, Riptide, and Kiss Me Slowly, with one
more slated for publication in 2013.