Tethered
Bond
(Holly Woods Files #3)
by
Emma Hart
(Holly Woods Files #3)
by
Emma Hart
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| Release Date: November 13, 2015 |
~ Synopsis ~
Detective Drake Nash: hot, alpha, bossy,
and… mine.
Now, if someone could tell his ex that... I
don’t care if the summer fayre is coming to Holly Woods and she’s on the
planning committee. What I do care about is sugar-filled food, bright lights,
late nights… and danger. The type that won’t come in the form of Nonna’s new
cantankerous British parrot, Gio. (Please see the damage done to Mom’s new
curtains.)
Unfortunately, when the danger comes, it comes
in the form of something Holly Woods has never seen. The town is rocked to its
core, and once again, I’m in danger. Only this time, it isn’t because of my
clients—this time, I’m in danger because of who I am… Because of my heritage.
And despite the HWPD’s best efforts, the bodies
keep on piling up.
Drake’s determined to protect me. I’m determined
that I can do it myself.
Danger. Mystery. Darkness. Malice.
It’ll be a miracle if any of us make it out of
this with guns unfired, cupcakes still frosted, and hearts intact…
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It’s better for my
sanity if I get this conversation with Nonna over and done with.
Oh my fuck. I have to
meet the parrot, too. Holy fuckballs. What if the colorful rat sides with her?
Oh, who am I kidding? Of
course it’s gonna side with Nonna.
Shit. Clearly, I can be
swayed by the desperation of my future sister-in-law. I’ve really gotta get a
handle on that crap. This should be Devin having this conversation, not me.
That thought hits right
as I pull up behind Mom’s car on the drive. I take a deep breath, apprehension
coiling in my lower stomach, and get out of my car. This feeling always hits
whenever I get to my parents’ place, but today, it’s particularly strong. I
know that Nonna will play the innocent card and make everything a lot harder.
I walk across the front
yard, and a loud squawk rings in my ears. My heart stops for a brief second,
and I bite my tongue. That thing is loud. How are Mom and Dad coping with that?
I knock on the front
door twice before I push it open.
“Ye cruel wench! Ye vile
wench! Cazzo! Cazzo!”
Nice to meet you, too,
Gio.
“Hello,” I call
hesitantly, closing the door behind me.
“Aye! Ye bloody wench!”
“Oh, shut up, you little
shit!” Mom yells.
I walk into the front
room in time to see her cover the offending bird’s cage with a bedsheet.
“Wench! Wench!” Gio
squawks from beneath the black sheet.
Mom smacks the cage.
“I’ll wench your beak real soon!”
Oy vey. Things have sure
gotten violent in the Bond family home.
Nonna shuffles into the
front room and, upon seeing Gio covered, gasps. “Kellie, you-a let-a him go-a!”
Mom snorts. “Believe me,
Liliana. If I could imprison the little shit, I would! My curtains are ruined!”
I glance at the window.
There’s a giant rip in one of the drapes. The ones she bought two weeks ago.
Nonna gasps and rushes
across the room, her cane nothing more than a steadying tool. “Gio!” she
exhales, whipping the sheet off. “You-a okay?”
The concern on her face
is comical. Oh, Nonna.
“Vile wench! Vile
wench!” Gio shrills, violently flapping his bright-green wings. “Kellie, ye
vile wench!”
I squint. Doesn’t seem
like Gio’s conversational skills are up to much unless he’s going to hop on the
Black Pearl.
“Hello?” I try again,
stepping fully into the front room.
Nonna is leaning
forward, cooing at the parrot, and ignores me. Mom turns, her nostrils flaring.
She’s mad.
“Nonna, do you know you
can hear that thing halfway down the street?” I inquire.
“He is-a no thing,”
Nonna murmurs. “He is-a Gio!”
Yeah, whatever.
Gio’s wings flap again,
and Nonna stands. Two beady, black eyes focus on me, and it’s surprisingly
uncomfortable. A high-pitched noise that sounds awfully like a whistle emits
from the cage, and I blink harshly.
“Did he just—”
Gio interrupts me with a
loud, unmistakable wolf whistle.
Holy shit. The parrot just wolf-whistled at me.
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See where it all began…….
Twisted Bond
(Holly Woods Files #1)
(Holly Woods Files #1)
~ Synopsis ~
I’m an Italian-Texan
woman in a family full of cops. I’m passionate and shoot before I think. You
only f*ck with me if you’re stupid.
Photograph cheating
spouses. Hand over the evidence. Cash my check.
That was my plan when I
returned home to Holly Woods, Texas, and became a private investigator.
Finding the dead body in
my dumpster? Yeah… Given the choice, I think I would have opted out of that
little discovery, especially since all three of my brothers are cops. And my
Italian grandmother is sure the reason I’m single is because of my job.
Of course, my connection
to the victim is entirely coincidental. Until I’m hired by her husband to
investigate her murder and shoved bang-smack into the path of Detective Drake
Nash.
My nemesis, a persistent
pain in my ass, and one hell of a sexy son of a bitch.
Shame he still holds a
grudge from that time I shot him in the foot twelve years ago, or we could have
something. In another life.
So now all I have to do
is avoid my nonna’s blind dates, try not to blackmail my brothers into giving
me confidential police files, and absolutely do not point my gun at Drake Nash.
Or kiss him. Or jump his bones.
All while I hunt down
the killer.
Sounds totally
simple—until a second body proves that sometimes things that start as
coincidences don’t always end up that way…
(Twisted Bond is book
one of the Holly Woods Files series and while it does not end in a cliffhanger,
it is not a standalone.)
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Tangled Bond
(Holly Woods Files #2)
(Holly Woods Files #2)
~ Synopsis ~
One date with the
sexier-than-sin Detective Drake Nash. Simple.
Until you take into
account that my brother finally proposed to his girlfriend, so Nonna is on a
warpath—and the crazy old bat has Cupid by the balls.
The upcoming mayoral
elections has everyone running on full speed, and while I couldn’t give any
less craps about the corrupt Holly Woods mayor’s office, a dead body in the
middle of a campaign speech has me thrown right into the middle of it. The
victim is close to the mayor, but all he cares about is minimizing the damage
to his campaign, so he hires me to work alongside Drake to close the case as
quickly as possible.
Bad news for our
tentative relationship.
We disagree far more
than we agree, but being at loggerheads won’t get this murder solved… Or deal
with the arrival of someone from his past.
The mysteries behind the
murder aren’t the only things unraveling, and despite being knee-deep in lies
and corruption and bonds so tangled they’re almost indecipherable, I have to
figure out if I’m willing to fight for Drake the way I do justice…
Or if he’ll be my one
who gets away.
~ About the Author ~
By day, New York Times
and USA Today bestselling New Adult author Emma Hart dons a cape and calls
herself Super Mum to two beautiful little monsters. By night, she drops the
cape, pours a glass of whatever she fancies - usually wine - and writes books.
Emma is working on Top
Secret projects she will share with her followers and fans at every available
opportunity. Naturally, all Top Secret projects involve a dashingly hot guy who
likes to forget to wear a shirt, a sprinkling (or several) of
hold-onto-your-panties hot scenes, and a whole lotta love.
She likes to be busy -
unless busy involves doing the dishes, but that seems to be when all the ideas
come to life.
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