Release Blitz: Hell Bent by Becky McGraw
Title: Hell Bent
Series: Deep Six Security #3
Author: Becky McGraw
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 26, 2016
When you leave home to find yourself, sometimes the best place to
look first is there...
Former Delta Force Operator
turned CIA Ghost Ops Operative Cade Winters has been dodging his
dysfunctional family for years. He isn’t supposed to have a family,
it’s too dangerous, but Cade can’t let go of the only person he
gives a shit about, his sister Veronica. When he makes his yearly
call to her and finds out she’s receiving death threats from a
homegrown terrorist group, Cade knows he has no choice but to go back
to Texas to make sure she’s safe.
Fresh out of a
six-year hitch in the Army, Cee Cee Logan thinks she’s finally
earned her brother David’s respect when he finally offers her a job
with his security firm. She quickly sees that isn’t the case when
the job she’s hired for turns out to be that of the team secretary,
a nice safe, desk job like he told her to get when she graduated
college. Cecelia is frustrated, but takes the position because she is
determined to prove to her chauvinistic and overprotective sibling
once and for all she’s capable of so much more.
By the
end of the first week, Cee Cee wishes she’d have just re-enlisted.
Her body is stiff from sitting, her fingers sore and her mind numb,
but what really makes her want to run back to Afghanistan where she
would at least be respected by her colleagues is the company’s
other new hire. Cade Winters, her ex-lover, is back in town and
the hardhearted, hard-bodied operator is a man she definitely doesn’t
know anymore.
When a trafficked woman’s repatriation clinic is bombed, and
Cade’s sister Veronica, a judge, is in grave danger, Cecelia is
presented with her opportunity to prove herself as an agent. But the
question was, did she want it? Could she trust her partner to have
her back when he seemed to be on a mission of his own to make her
look bad every chance he got?
18+ Excerpt from HELL BENT: Deep Six Security Book 3 (c) Becky
McGraw, January 2016
“If you’d have talked to me before you lef—“ he started,
but her sharp bark of laughter cut him off and he shot her a hot
glare.
“I did come to talk to you but figured you
weren’t much into talking or listening to anything I had to say
with that brunette’s lips wrapped around your dick,” Cee Cee
snarled, a brow lifted over her angry, hurt eyes.
A
shock of electricity shot through his body to boil his blood which
crept up to the base of his throat as memories of that night, the
last time he’d seen her, flashed through his mind. He cringed, and
his hands tightened on the steering wheel.
That night
he’d been as cruel as he could be to her because he wanted to hurt
her as much as she’d hurt him. Cade wanted to show her she didn’t
mean an iota more to him than she’d proven he meant to her by
leaving him dangling on a limb without an explanation or excuse for
two fucking weeks. That she showed up on the night before the morning
he knew she was leaving for boot camp, the absolute worst night of
his life, made things worse. He couldn’t be held responsible for
his actions or reactions that night.
“You broke into
my apartment, and I was drunk,” he said defensively. And in so much
fucking pain, neither the alcohol nor the hot, nameless woman sucking
my dick could make it better.
“I didn’t break in, I
had a key, remember? And thank God you were drunk enough to finally
tell me how you really felt about me. You saved me a lot of future
complications.” Her harsh laugh rang hollowly inside his skull. “It
was a hard and painful lesson, but totally worth it. I learned not to
trust a man with anything more than my body, or expect anything from
him in return for a good fuck. Because I went in with that attitude,
I’ve had plenty of opportunities to learn you were right—I am a
damned good fuck—and the act is a lot more fun when satisfaction is
all you expect in return. Sure makes things less messy in the
morning, doesn’t it?”
Cade didn’t know what to say
as his eyes flew to hers. The vulgarity falling from her soft lips
made him want to wash her mouth out with soap for some reason. Blood
crept up his face to set his scalp on fire, as the hard little smile
that curved the corner her mouth, the knowing look in her eyes caused
a tight band of regret to constrict his chest.
He had
done this to her, turned her into this kind of woman. His hasty,
drunken, and yes immature, words meant to hurt her had done so much
more. They turned a soft-hearted girl into a one-night-stand kind of
woman like the brunette.
Were you really naïve enough
to believe I wanted more than a fuck, Brat? You were a good fuck to
me, Cecelia, nothing more. Wise up about men—we’re only looking
for one thing and you’re keeping me from getting that right now. Go
away, little girl, I’m busy.
Pressure built in his
skull and his breaths came hard and fast as he studied her, tried to
find that girl he used to know somewhere in her eyes but failed.
Cecelia’s chin lifted a notch as her arms tightened around her
middle, before she leaned back against the seat and looked out the
side window.
“You’re better than that, Brat.” God,
so much better, and guilt for his hand in turning her into what she’d
become closed off his throat, so his words were choked. “You may
have gotten confidence in the military, but you sure lost any
delicacy you may have possessed before, and that’s a damned shame.”
“No, I’m not delicate in the least anymore. You toughened me
right up.” She looked at him with a lifted brow and a smirk curving
one corner of her mouth. “I’ve become a woman not to be messed
with and I thank you for starting that transformation, Cade.”
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A Jill of many trades, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling
Author Becky McGraw has been an optician, a beautician, a legal
secretary, a real estate broker, web designer, graphic artist, and
romance writer. She knows just enough to make her dangerous, and her
humor-laced contemporary cowboy, military and romantic suspense
novels varied and interesting.
Becky has three adult
children, a precious new grandbaby and resides in Florida with her
husband of thirty-plus years and her dog Abby. She is a member of the
Romance Writers of America Published Authors Network, Novelists, Inc.
and The Sisters In Crime.
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