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Excerpt from Soul Sucker
Excerpt from Soul Sucker
“Look,
can you bear to go through what happened one more time for me?”
His
faint color fled. “Do I have to?”
“It
would help me pinpoint exactly where I have to go to find this...anomaly.”
“Sunflower,
you mean.”
“Well,
it uses the flower as camouflage. It’s skilled at hiding in anything.”
He
held her gaze. “You’re serious, aren’t you?”
“I
sure am. Now would you mind closing your eyes while you tell me what happened?
It will help you visualize the scene.”
It
would also help Ella identify exactly what had attacked him and then erase it
from his memory. One of her class tutors had likened using empath power on the
human mind to erasing a song from a cassette tape or an image from a VCR and,
even though it was old school, she kind of liked that idea. It was also why she
always told the victim the truth about what they’d seen before she erased the
memories. It seemed to help them recover more quickly without leaving a
lingering suspicion that they were going nuts.
Mr.
Knight sighed and closed his eyes. She closed hers too and concentrated on
extracting the images from his head.
“Okay,
I was taking a shortcut through the park near the Japanese Tea Gardens when I
thought I heard someone call my name. I had my ear buds in, so I took them out
and looked around.” He swallowed convulsively. “I walked toward one of the
flowerbeds and something tapped me on the shoulder. I turned and there was this
weird face staring out at me from the center of this huge sunflower.”
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Copyright © 2012 by Kate Pearce
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A move to the
USA finally allowed her to fulfill her dreams and sit down and write her first
romance novel. Kate is published by Signet Eclipse, Kensington Aphrodisia,
Ellora's Cave, Carina Press, Cleis Press and Virgin Black Lace/Cheek.
Soul Sucker
Supernatural Branch of Law Enforcement empath Ella Walsh sucks memories from people’s heads. The job fills her mind with others’ nightmares and leaves her with little time for love, but if she doesn’t pair off with a mate of the government’s choosing soon, the psychic blowback will destroy her powers and her sanity.
The last time shapeshifting SBLE superstar Vadim Morosov worked with an empath, he got her killed and himself assigned to a desk. He worries about taking on another partner, but helping Ella track down an empath killer might be his only chance to save his career.
Naturally, the government decides to throw them together…
They resist at first, but they can’t deny the simmering heat between them. As the killer’s strikes grow closer to home, their bond gets tighter. And when the murderer finally traps Ella, her developing link with Vadim might be the only thing that can save her.
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