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Survival Instinct
Instinct #3
Janie Crouch
Releasing July 11, 2017
The voices in her head have decided to kill her.
Most people joke about hearing voices in their heads. For Chloe Jeffries, they’re real. And as the creative force behind one of the most popular shows on television, she has used the constant flood of voices in her mind to her advantage: fuel for entertainment.
But now one of the voices has decided it wants Chloe all for itself.
Ex-Special Forces soldier Shane Westman just wants to make it back to Wyoming to begin to heal from the horrors of war. The last thing he needs, even as a favor for a good friend, is to take on bodyguard duty of a flighty television writer. But once he does, he realizes there are threats at play he doesn’t understand. And the woman who has somehow begun to thaw his frozen heart is in desperate danger from a menace they can’t see, but is always close.
The voice that will never allow Chloe to escape alive.
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Most people joke about hearing voices in their heads. For Chloe Jeffries, they’re real. And as the creative force behind one of the most popular shows on television, she has used the constant flood of voices in her mind to her advantage: fuel for entertainment.
But now one of the voices has decided it wants Chloe all for itself.
Ex-Special Forces soldier Shane Westman just wants to make it back to Wyoming to begin to heal from the horrors of war. The last thing he needs, even as a favor for a good friend, is to take on bodyguard duty of a flighty television writer. But once he does, he realizes there are threats at play he doesn’t understand. And the woman who has somehow begun to thaw his frozen heart is in desperate danger from a menace they can’t see, but is always close.
The voice that will never allow Chloe to escape alive.
*100% of proceeds until July 16 goes to Cystic Fibrosis charities – with a special $0.99 price. Help us stomp CF! Plus, buy Survival Instinct before July 16 and get a free ebook by Janie not available anywhere else! More details here: http://www.janiecrouch.com/si-pp-0717
Chloe Jeffries looked over at her creative team. The Days End team was tired. Worried. The
stalker had seen to that. Not to mention all the new bodyguards had definitely
put a damper on the creative energy usually surrounding the show. But the new
guy coming in definitely wouldn’t.
“The studio is
sending in a security expert to coordinate security around here and to
investigate our friendly neighborhood stalker,” Chloe told them. “We’re
supposed to give him access to anything he needs. I’ve been assured that he
will fit in just fine and will not hamper our artistic energy in any way. We
won’t even know he’s here.”
“Like that guy walking towards us who definitely doesn’t
scream I’m-a-Navy-SEAL or anything?” Travis’ eyebrow was raised so far it
looked like it had found a new home in his hairline.
Chloe stared at the man in question. Didn’t seem able to
turn away from him even if she wanted to. His long legs were encased in
perfectly creased khaki pants, a collared light blue shirt tucked in—also
perfectly—at the waist. His broad shoulders were covered in a tailored suit
jacket under which Chloe was willing to bet all of this year’s salary lay a
shoulder holster for a gun. His posture screamed military. The way he carried
himself — the set of his shoulders and lift of his chest.
Alert. Deadly. Ready.
But impressive as his body was, it was his face that
drew her more. There was nothing pretty about him. His face was rugged to the
point of being harsh. His jaw already holding some stubble even though it
wasn’t even yet lunchtime. And she had no doubt Mr. Military Man had shaved
this morning, unquestionably during his perfect morning routine. His dark hair
was cut close to his head, as if he couldn’t quite decide whether to keep it
military short or go for a more relaxed style.
His eyes were hidden behind aviator sunglasses, but
Chloe knew he saw everything. Knew he saw her and that if she stopped him right
at this moment, blindfolded him and asked him to tell her where everyone was,
he’d be able to do so with astounding accuracy, even though there were more
than a dozen people milling around that he hadn’t looked at directly.
This man was the epitome of cool, calm, and collected.
She could feel the former radiating off him. Wanted to close her eyes and sink
towards him. Her brain, always under such constant onslaught with the thoughts
of others, and particularly the one voice that had been searing through her
mind so agonizingly lately, wanted to bask in this man’s ice. Wanted to douse
herself in it.
But she couldn’t. Because while she had no doubt this
man would be able to organize the hell out of security and unquestionably catch
the stalker and freeze him with his ice-beams after leaping tall buildings in a
single bound, there was no way he wasn’t going to hamper the creative energy of
the set. Energy that Chloe relied on not only to make Day’s End the greatest show on television, but to keep her own
sanity.
He was already sucking in her energy and they hadn’t
even spoken yet.
Ten seconds later he was standing directly in front of
Chloe with his perfect hair and jaw, perfect shirt tucked into his perfectly
pressed pants.
“I’m Shane Westman with the Linear Tactical. We’ve been
hired for security,” he said, taking off his sunglasses. Chloe wasn’t a bit
surprised to find he had perfectly icy blue eyes. “I need to know who’s in
charge.”
There was no way this Shane Westman could stay. No
possibility Chloe could allow it.
He was too perfect. Too distracting. Too everything.
He may keep them safe from the stalker but who would
keep her safe from him?
Award-winning
romantic suspense author and 2017 Romance Writers of America RITA
finalist Janie Crouch recently relocated from Virginia to an
American military base in Stuttgart, Germany with her hubby and four kids. She
loves travelling, adventure racing, and movies of all kinds.
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