Embracing Silence
©2016 N.J. Walters
All rights reserved, Carina Press
BLURB:
In the erotic first installment of the Project Alpha trilogy, a violent wasteland becomes the backdrop for two assassins who arouse in each other much more than fear and suspicion
Earth 2133
The hunter becomes the hunted
Tienan is Alpha One, created by the privileged few who live shielded from a lawless land. He’s been honed into the perfect involuntary weapon—vengeful, adaptable and ruthless. Finally free of the evil organization that created him, he’s on the run with one option to survive outside the Gate: avoid recapture, even if that means killing again. But the sexy little stalker following him is too delicious to take out.
The captive becomes the captor
Silence is a tracker with the Resistance, a rebel force amassed to end the reign of terror. For Silence to trust Tienan is a risk, but to resist his brutal prowess is impossible.
Enemies become lovers
As raw sexual need takes over, alliances will shift and treachery could become as potent—and as lethal—as desire.
Previously published, newly revised by author
EXCERPT:
A scuffing sound, so faint a normal person wouldn’t have heard it, alerted him. Tienan would give whoever was trailing him credit. His tracker wasn’t rushing to chase him, but following him in a methodical manner, secure enough in his tracking skills to know he wouldn’t lose Tienan.
That might be the case if Tienan were a normal man, but his skills gave him something extra. He could easily use his strength and cunning to evade whoever was after him. It would be a simple matter to scale the side of the building and disappear in the shadows if he chose to do so.
But this tracker had gotten dangerously close on several occasions over the past month. He’d never seen who was after him, but more than once, he’d sensed his presence. Most folks would laugh, insisting there was no way he could know it was the same person.
But Tienan knew.
It was in the way the tracker moved, the way he went about his business. There was a methodical pattern that never varied. When Tienan felt something that strongly, he listened to his instincts.
The two of them were locked in a deadly game of hunt-and-evade, which neither of them would abandon. But the game was about to come to an end. The hunted had become the hunter.
It was time to discover who was following him and why. Most likely it was an assassin sent by the General to terminate him once and for all, but Tienan didn’t like to make assumptions. Which was the reason he’d led the tracker to this particular building. Tienan had stayed here two nights ago and decided it was as good a place as any to bait his trap. There were no other squatters living in or around the building. It had been abandoned by all but the rats years ago. Although it was falling down, there were a few areas that were strong and solid. He’d taken the time to set up an interrogation room in what had been the basement. That way he wouldn’t be disturbed as he talked to the tracker and uncovered the truth. And by talk, he meant gaining the information he needed, no matter what means he had to use to get it.
The cool, damp air penetrated his clothing, the leather pants and jacket not quite heavy enough to keep out the cold. Tienan ignored it the same way he did everything else. His focus completely on the person tracking him and his surroundings. There was always the possibility the tracker wasn’t alone.
It would make more sense for them to send a team to take him down. The General knew what he was capable of. It would take more than one man to kill him no matter how skilled at killing he was. No one was as good as him. He wasn’t just any Alpha, but Alpha One, the best of the best.
He felt no sense of pride in that admission. Nor was there any sense of conceit. It was a fact, much like the cold and damp that currently enveloped him.
He had a blade strapped to his back, a dagger in each boot and another one in a sheath at his waist, but his hands were empty. He didn’t need weapons to kill. A heavy strand of wire was tucked up his sleeve. He’d garrote the tracker after he found out whatever he needed to know. It was a quicker, quieter method of disposing of his problem.
Tienan felt no sense of remorse at the thought of killing. The man had come after him. Death was inevitable.
If he hadn’t had enhanced hearing, he would never have heard the subtle sound of breathing just a dozen feet away.
Still motionless, he waited for his tracker to come closer. There was no sound to give away any movement, but his nostrils detected the lightest scent of…
Disbelief filled him. Impossible.
He let the perfume drift into his nose once again. There was no mistaking it. The faintest trace of honey and soap was there for sure. But underlying it was the unmistakable scent of a woman.
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N.J. Walters is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has always been a voracious reader, and now she spends her days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers, seductive handymen, and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks—all vie for her attention. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.
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