Justice for Corrie (Badge of Honor: Texas
Heroes Book 3) by Susan Stoker
Date of Publication: March 8, 2016
Synopsis
**Justice for Corrie is the 3rd book in
the Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no
cliffhanger endings.
Blind since birth, Corrie Madison relies
on her other sharpened senses in her job as a chiropractor. Never did she imagine
she'd have to depend on them to identify a killer. But when a man enters her
practice, murdering everyone in his path, Corrie is the only witness—putting
her directly in the killer's crosshairs.
Officer Quint Axton wasn't looking for love, or even a relationship, until he meets Corrie. Beautiful and brave, resilient and intelligent, she's everything Quint wants—if he can keep her alive long enough to explore their mutual attraction. The threats on Corrie's life are escalating. Surely a blind person is helpless against a ruthless killer?
Hardly. Corrie is about to prove that disabled does not equal defenseless.
Officer Quint Axton wasn't looking for love, or even a relationship, until he meets Corrie. Beautiful and brave, resilient and intelligent, she's everything Quint wants—if he can keep her alive long enough to explore their mutual attraction. The threats on Corrie's life are escalating. Surely a blind person is helpless against a ruthless killer?
Hardly. Corrie is about to prove that disabled does not equal defenseless.
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Teaser
Just as Corrie reached for the doorknob to see if she could find
Shaun—he usually hung out in the makeshift break room toward the back of the
clinic—she heard angry voices in the reception area, followed by a weird
popping noise. She froze in her tracks and tilted her head to the side, trying
to figure out what was going on.
It wasn't until she heard Cayley's scream cut short that Corrie figured
out something horrible was happening.
Knowing better than to open her door and try to stop whatever was going
on, Corrie stepped quickly away from the door and imagined her office layout in
her head. As the popping noises and the screams continued—and got closer to her
office—she frantically thought about where she could hide.
Her desk was large, and sat perpendicular to the doorway. She could
walk from the door straight to the chair at her desk without having to swerve
around any furniture. She kept her office purposely free of extraneous chairs
and tables so she didn't have to worry about tripping over them. She could hide
under the desk, but wasn't that where everyone always hid—and died doing it? If
she was a crazy person hell-bent on killing everyone around her, that's the
first place she'd look for stragglers who might be hiding.
The exam door down the hall was opened and Corrie heard Mr. Treadaway
ask, "Who are you?" before the awful popping sound came again.
Knowing time was running out, the gunman would be at her office within
moments, Corrie made the split-second decision to see if she could fit in the
small area under the sink. There was no other place she could hide.
When she'd been hired, there hadn't been any extra space for her to
have an office in the small clinic. A small break room had been converted for
her, and the sink and cabinets still lined one wall. It would be a tight fit,
an extremely tight fit, but Corrie didn't hesitate.
Hearing the unsteady gait of someone walking down the hall, Corrie
raced over to the sink and opened the cabinet underneath. She shoved her butt
in first and wiggled it around, knocking over a few odds and ends that were
stored under there in the process. She drew her knees up as close to her chest
as she could get them and sighed in relief as she realized she fit, barely. Her
neck was bent down at an awkward angle and she couldn't breathe very well, but
Corrie quickly, and quietly, closed one door, then the other, praying whoever
was shooting wouldn't think to look under the sink for anyone.
At the same moment Corrie heard the soft click of the cabinet door to
her hiding place engage with the small magnet that kept it shut, she heard her
office door burst open.
Because Corrie was blind, her other senses had always been more acute
than a sighted person's. She seemed to hear, smell, and taste what people with
no disabilities couldn't. The man who'd entered her office walked straight to
her desk. Corrie heard her desk chair being pulled away. Yup, he'd immediately
checked under there to see if someone was hiding from him. She heard him walk
to the small window and held her breath.
About Susan Stoker
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall
Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state
of Texas where she lives, but this all American girl has also spent the last
fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, and Indiana. She's
married to a retired Army man who now gets to follow her around the country.
She debuted her first series in 2014 and
quickly followed that up with the SEAL of Protection Series, which solidified
her love of writing and creating stories readers can get lost in.
I am Freaking(!!!) happy that you have so many books coming out this year! Yay! You are an auto-buy, auto-pre-order for me!!! <3
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