Author: Beverley Bateman
Favorite Autumn Treat: Pumpkin Whoopie pies
Featured Book: Don’t Go
Blurb:
Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Detective, and a member of Crimes Against Children, Samantha Brennan, raped as a child, is a dedicated to finding pedophiles who stalk their teenage victims online. Her specialty is the internet chatrooms where she works to catch pedophiles and prevent young girls from becoming potential rape victims.
Reno Police Department Lieutenant Devlin O’Reilly is a loose cannon. He’s renegade cop who prefers to work undercover and catch bad guys than regular detective work. A gun in the perp’s mouth gives him a real rush. He works alone and doesn’t take on crimes involving children. Off duty he likes to drink and pick up surgically enhanced, brainless bimbos. A relationship to him is a long weekend.
Forced to work together when a fourteen year old girl leaves home to meet a ‘boy’ from a chatroom, Sam and Devlin have to overcome many of their personal challenges and find out how to forge a working relationship. They both know that the girl is not going to find a peer who understands her, but a man who will terrorize and rape her.
Can they move past their personal agendas to catch him in time?
Excerpt:
Dev heard voices in the hall.
“Thank you, Mrs. Morrison. It would probably be best if you waited downstairs for now.” The soft, almost melodious, voice caught his ear.
The tall, leggy, blonde striding into the room didn’t disappoint. Her soft pink lips pursed together she stopped inside the door to survey the room. Her forest green Washoe County Sheriff’s uniform, hugged her body in all the right places.
For the first time, he decided he liked that uniform.
Emerald green eyes regarded him coolly before dismissing him.
His pulse revved when he met her gaze. Not his type, but damned attractive all the same; although her expression didn’t fit the voice.
He pulled his shoulders back, assumed a wide, defense stance and crooked one eyebrow higher than the other. “So you would be…?”
“Detective Sam Brennan, Washoe County Sheriff’s office. You must be Lieutenant O’Reilly from the Reno Police Department.”
“What the hell is the sheriff’s office doing here?”
“Don’t ask me. I just follow orders. They said you needed computer help.”
“I guess.” He had a strong aversion to take-charge, assertive women. The vibes this one gave off were definitely assertive.
“You touch this?” She snapped and pointed at the computer. The musical voice developed a razor-sharp edge, slicing through the room.
Now it went with the uniform.
“No ma’am. I wouldn’t want to screw anything up for the sheriff’s department.”
Women shouldn’t be in law enforcement. They were too emotional. You couldn’t trust them. Why the hell had the captain called the sheriff’s office? They always had attitude.
What was wrong with their guys? Oh yeah, right—shorthanded.
“Good, because it’s turned off. If you had turned it on you could have lost evidence.” She snapped on her latex gloves. “So, are you going to continue to stand there, or are you going to let me get to work?”
“Look lady…”
“That’s detective.”
“Fine. Look detective, you’re here to check the computer for chatrooms and whatever else will help find the girl. That’s it. It’s the Reno PD investigation.”
“Whatever. I didn’t ask to be here. Reno PD asked for our help. If you want a change call the sheriff.”
“Go ahead, do what you need to.”
“Then get out of my way and let me work.”
“Yes ma’am.” Dev moved back to the center of the room.
In front of the computer she sat quietly for several minutes listening to the machine before she touched it.
Her shoulder-length, blonde hair smelled of something outdoorsy, maybe flowers or pine trees. The fragrance tweaked his nostrils. The fresh smell made him think of mountain hiking through alpine meadows, providing another contradiction, with the no-nonsense appearance of the detective. An oxymoron was Detective Brennan, but a woman he hoped he never saw again.
He liked his women young, cosmetically enhanced, with IQs of bubble gum.
“Before I take the computer back to the station, I’ll check a few things and see if we can find out where Melissa has been playing.”
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Author Bio
Beverley Bateman lives in the Okanagan Valley in BC, Canada among vineyards, orchards, lakes and mountains with her Shiba Inu dogs. She sits on her deck, sips a local wine and pens her latest romantic suspense. Hunted, Missing and the newest – Targeted are part of her Montana series. She also has her Holly Devine series; A Cruise to Remember, and a Murder to Forget. Don’t Go is her darker romantic suspense.
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