And Caroline? Caroline was his to love, and, he hoped, to keep. To build a future with. To build a life with.
The three of them were his family now.
Thanks to them, he’d found the road home again.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’d like to thank Elana Cohen, Faren Bachelis, Steve Breslin, Liz Psaltis, Ellen Chan, and Jean Anne Rose, for all their great work on this book. Your contributions were invaluable.
I’d also like to thank my agent, Robert Gottlieb, for being so supportive, and Mark Gottlieb for doing such a good job with my ebooks.
KAREN ROBARDS is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books, including the romantic thrillers Justice and Sleepwalker, and the historical romance trilogy Scandalous, Irresistible, and Shameless. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her family.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Robards, Karen.
Hunted / Karen Robards.
pages cm
1. Hostage negotiations—Fiction. 2. Policewomen—Louisiana—New Orleans—Fiction. 3. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction.
4. Romantic suspense fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.O196H84 2013
813’.54—dc23 2013040433
ISBN 978-1-4516-7871-0
ISBN 978-1-4516-7875-8 (ebook)
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Acknowledgments
About Karen Robards
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