Houghton looked at Turner and nodded. “Figured as much. Take the keys. Stay in the ranch. It…needs children. It needs the boys and a family inside.”
Houghton had grown up at the ranch. He hadn’t stayed there since someone had set off a bomb nearly killing him and his wife and several of her sisters and friends. Because of his father.
The memories were there in his eyes.
Turner’s fingers tightened around the keys.
He liked the idea of the boys growing up in the family home.
It had been built by the original Turner, after all. He’d taken over from his own father when the man and his wife Jude had moved into a smaller home years later.
“Thanks, guys.”
Clay slapped him on the back. He always had been a silent wall of support for his cousins. “Take care of her. Bailey says she’s one of those women men like us don’t deserve, and I’m inclined to believe her.”
Turner had to agree.
As his brothers and cousins left, he looked at her. Into tired blue eyes. “You sure you’re ok with this?”
“Yes. I…just want to be with you. Tonight made that clear. I’m tired of hiding from life. Just getting through. I want to embrace it. Everything that comes with it. Including you.”
She held out a small hand to him. Turner took it.
Before he could stop himself he was in that bed with her, curling himself around her.
So what if she had to lay mostly on top of him to make it work.
He was never spending another night away from her again.
Turner Avery Barratt was a Barratt, after all. He’d found the woman he wanted. And now he was going to keep her.
Coming Soon!
THE FIRST NOVEL-LENGTH PAVAD: FBI CASE FILE!
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PAVAD: FBI CASE FILES #0005 “BURIED SECRETS”
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Masterson County was full of secrets. Someone knows who killed Helen Beise.
When her friend’s grandmother’s body is found buried in the Beise family’s barn, PAVAD: FBI Agent Miranda Talley is called back to her hometown of Masterson County, Wyoming to find answers.
She’ll start by finding the rest of the Beise family. Seven people, including five children, didn’t just disappear without a good reason. A dead grandmother would be a really good reason to run.
There were rumors of a secret lover turned mass murderer, but Miranda discounted that quickly. Helen hadn’t been running all over the county with a mysterious lover. Another rumor said her son-in-law, a known conspiracy theorist, had finally snapped. Had slaughtered his six children and pregnant wife in their beds. Some said he was still out there, ready to protect his secrets, no matter what the cost.
With Agent Allan Knight following along, and her own team of PAVAD agents, Miranda digs deeper into the town she’d always loved and the family that she’d always thought she’d known. But there were some secrets that people will kill to keep buried…
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Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD--the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI--was no different.
This was one of those cases.
This fifth installment of the PAVAD: FBI Case Files series is the first novel-length Case File and includes characters seen in the PAVAD: FBI romantic suspense, Masterson County romantic suspense, and Finley Creek, Texas romantic suspense series’ of books, but is a complete story with no cliff-hanger and can stand alone.
Also by Calle J Brookes
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
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PAVAD: FBI ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
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Beginning (Prequel 1)
Waiting (Prequel 2)
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Watching
Wanting
Second Chances
Hunting
Running
Redeeming
Revealing
Stalking
Ghosting
Burning
Gathering
Falling
Hiding
Seeking
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FINLEY CREEK SERIES
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TRILOGY ONE (TEXAS STATE POLICE)
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Her Best Friend’s Keeper
Shelter from the Storm
The Price of Silence
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TRILOGY TWO (FINLEY CREEK GENERAL)
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If the Dark Wins
Wounds That Won’t Heal
Hope for Finley Creek (bonus novella)
As the Night Ends
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TRILOGY THREE (FINLEY CREEK DISASTER)
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Before the Rain Breaks
Lost in the Wind
Walk Through the Fire
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MASTERSON COUNTY NOVELLA SERIES
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Seeking the Sheriff
Discovering the Doctor
Ruining the Rancher
Denying the Devil
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SMALL-TOWN SHERIFFS
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Holding the Truth
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SUSPENSE/THRILLER
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PAVAD: FBI CASE FILES
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PAVAD: FBI Case Files #0001
“Knocked Out”
PAVAD: FBI Case Files #0002
“Knocked Down”
PAVAD: FBI Case Files #0003
“Knocked Around”
PAVAD: FBI Case Files #0004
“White Out”
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Calle has several free reads available at
www.CalleJBrookesReads.com
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For my grandfather, the best man I have ever known.
You will be missed.
Oct. 2015
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For my grandmother, who gave me the courage to try. Without you and your love of romance, I never would have made it this far.
Feb. 2016
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For my papaw, whose children loved him deeply, and will always miss him.
Oct. 2017
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Calle J. Brookes is first and foremost a fiction writer. She enjoys crafting paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She reads almost every genre except horror. She spends most of her time juggling family life and writing while reminding herself that she can’t spend all of her time in the worlds found within books. CJ loves to be contacted by her readers via email and at www.CalleJBrookes.com. When not at home writing stories of adventure and wrangling with two border collies and a beagle puppy, CJ is off in her RV somewhere exploring the beautiful world we live in, along with her husband of she can’t remember how many years and their child.
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About the Author
Calle J. Brookes is first and foremost a fiction writer. She enjoys crafting paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She reads almost every genre except horror. She spends most of her time juggling family life and writing while reminding herself that she can’t spend all of her time in the worlds found within books. CJ loves to be contacted by her readers via email and at www.CalleJBrookes.com. When not at home writing stories of adventure and wrangling with two border collies and a beagle puppy, CJ is off in her RV somewhere exploring the beautiful world we live in, along with her husband of she can’t remember how many years and their child.
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FCI2020
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WALK THROUGH THE FIRE
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