Beautiful, vivacious
Emma Prescott has a love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation. Fact is, Emma's holding
off for a hero. When she moves to a cabin at wilderness Loon Lake and meets her
one neighbor biology professor Frasier MacKenzie, he's still just another guy,
even with his killer blue eyes and body that just won't quit...until he rescues
her and her Pug from one danger after another. Then he definitely falls into
hero territory. But the professor has no intention of filling the role of white
knight in Emma's life. All he wants is to be rid of her and her annoying little
dog so he can get on with his research. In fact, he's ordered to get rid of them
whether he wants to or not. Looks like Emma may have to go on holding off for a
hero...
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The unmistakable screech made his
breath clog in his throat. His body froze in mid-stride. The
Panther! Dear God! Emma! Pulling his
gun, he plunged into the
darkening bush.
“Emma!” he yelled.
“Frasier!”
Her cry sent him charging
forward. He rounded a small thicket to see
her huddled
against the trunk of a pine, the Pug
clutched in her arms. Stalking toward her, bird-dog
fashion, its belly dragging on the snow, was the Panther.
He raised the gun. His hand
shuddered. No, please, God, not now! Taking aim, he
fired. The report rocked the silence of the
forest. The big cat screamed as the bullet
whizzed inches over its head. Roaring, it whirled and
vanished into the shadowy bush. The silence of the
winter twilight returned. The hand holding the
smoking gun dropped to his side, every ounce of strength
drained.
“Thank God you missed.” Emma
recovered her speech. “It would have been awful to
have killed him.”
“Damn it, Emma…!”
“Well, if he hadn’t run away from
that warning shot, you would have got him with
the next one,
right?”
“Right.” Her absolute confidence
made him choke out the
word. Still clutching the Pug, she
suddenly sank down on her haunches in the
snow.
“Frasier, I was so scared,” she hiccuped
Gail MacMillan is a three-time
Maxwell Award Winning writer and author of 26 published books. A graduate of
Queen's University, she lives in New Brunswick Canada with her husband and two
dogs, Fancy a Little River Duck Dog and Bruiser the cover guy and hero of
Holding Off For a Hero.
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Thank you for hosting!
A wonderful excerpt thank you!!
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