Title: Within
the Shadows
Author: T.
L. Mahrt
Genre: Suspense
Romance
Target Audience:
Target avatar is readers of steamy suspenseful romance novel, mostly
woman, ages rom 18-55.
Release Date:
Preorders Released: May, 28 2020 and Release Date: August 28, 2020
Trigger Warnings:
Mid violence, domestic assault and heavy sexual content. Profanity
language used.
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Emma’s
world is rocked as the real monster lurking in the shadows is
unveiled.
Emma
Andrews’ last memory of her mother is seeing her bleeding to death
on the bathroom floor. Several years later, Emma is kidnapped and
forced to face the same monster that killed her mother. Quickly,
Emma—a daydreamer with an inventive personality—must learn to
separate her fantasies from reality in order to differentiate friend
or foe.
As
secrets unfold and the shadows emerge, Emma wonders if she can endure
reliving the trauma of her past. One thing she does know for
certain—she can’t do it alone.
Will
Emma escape from this monster alive? Will Chance still love her after
she reveals her past? Or, will someone new teach Emma the true
strength hiding within her?
Prologue
Jarret
Gage…
I
fist my dick in my hands and squeeze. Fuck,
she looks just like her mother, I
think as I take in the sight of her. She is beautiful with her long
blond hair spilled across my lap. My eyes move down her unconscious
body sprawled along the black leather seat of my Mercedes, causing my
dick to stiffen harder. Yes, she
looks just like that fucking whore.
A
little girl’s icy blue eyes—Emma’s eyes—look wildly around
the room as she weeps, shaking her mother’s cold dead body…
Why
would a child ever cry for their whore of a mother?
I
blink a few times bringing me back to the present. I think of how
those same icy blue eyes wept for that mother-fucker Rick. I was
messy with killing Rick, much like I was with her mother, Elaine.
The
sound of Emma shifting on the leather seat causes me to look down.
She lets out a groan. I pluck a syringe out of the pocket of my
jacket. Shit, not yet.
I stab the needle into her thigh. I look up to the driver from the
rear seat of the blackout Mercedes.
“Lenny,
how long until we get there?” I call out.
“Thirty
more minutes, sir.”
“Good,
she keeps waking up.”
“Sir,
what are you going to do about Chance?”
“Shut
up, Lenny, and let me worry about him.”
“It’s
just he knows your real name—”
“I
said shut the fuck up!”
My
chest aches. Why the hell did Rick introduce me to Chance? Fuck, I
didn’t want to have to take Chance out … but now I don’t think
I have a choice. Rick had to fuck everything up by falling for Emma
and refusing to hand her over. Did he ever make the connection
between Emma and Elaine? Fuck him, he’s disposed of now. It’s
about time Rick paid his debts … and Emma is the perfect price.
I
reach my hand up and finger a silky lock of her hair the lies across
my crotch. The image of Elaine steamrolls into my subconscious. The
same blue eyes sparkling up at me. She was a manipulative little
fucking whore. I pet Emma’s head absentmindedly as I think of all
the lies Elaine weaved to make me believe she loved me.
I
trace the lines of Emma’s full lips and my dick stiffens once more.
Yes, I’m going to take her, just like I took her mother.
If
she’s a good girl, she will be paying her mother’s debts with
those fuckable lips.
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After having her son, who was born with Cerebral Palsy, she made the
life altering decision to stay home to care for her two children and
pursue her love for writing. She has a love for romance and poetry
where, her overactive imagination, along with her adventures and up
beat lifestyle drives her inspiration for her writing.
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