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The Valkyrie’s Guardian
Moriah Densley
Moriah Densley
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Crimson Romance / F+W Media
ISBN: 1440551375
ISBN13: 9781440551376
Number of pages: 300
Book Description:
You might call them superheroes.
“Extra-sentients” are one in 4.5 million with the extraordinary ability to
unlock the full potential of the mind.
Cassiopeia Noyon is descended
from the most powerful known extra-sentient, but she’s a dud – no impressive
talents except a healing ability which lands her in trouble. She’s all wrong
for Jack MacGunn, her dazzling immortal berserker bodyguard.
Cassiopeia Noyon has a medical
degree at age twenty-one, which makes her a total loser … for an extra-sentient
with merely superhuman strength and healing powers but not much else. Cassie
may not even be immortal, which is a downer since the man she’s adored since
age six, is.
Jack MacGunn is King of the Bad
Pick-Up Line. A true blue kilt-wearing, pipe-playing Scot descended from a long
line of berserker warriors; if he’s awake, he’s either hungry or itching for a
fight. Lately Jack feels lost. His career as a Navy SEAL detachment agent is on
a slow train to nowhere. He suspects it has something to do with his
out-of-control superhuman rages.
The one task Jack has never
failed at is guarding Cassie from their enemies, but now he fears he can’t
protect her from himself. Even if they could go a single day without fighting,
Jack knows he’ll never be good enough for her. The boss’ granddaughter is
off-limits anyway.
A chance encounter with a villain
long assumed dead sends Jack and Cassie on a race to save the children secreted
away at Network One, the academy for genius extra-sentients. Jack discovers a
new side of Cassie when in the heat of combat she invokes unheard-of powers.
Has Jack finally met his match?
Excerpt
Without much
effort she summoned static in the air. It gathered in her hands as she wrestled
to equalize the tension between ground and sky. The shift in atmospheric energy
sucked down a dull pressure she could feel in her skull and chest. The charge
crackling in her fingers burned ice hot.
Cassie walked
calmly to the men locked in struggle and set a hand on each of their shoulders,
transferring a mild dose of purple electricity into their bodies. They jerked
back and screamed. She exploited their surprise and shoved them both apart,
hurling them several feet.
She heaved slow
breaths to calm her anger, resisting the temptation to fry their idiotic
brains. They rolled slowly and strained to sit up, mist steaming out of their
collars.
“Jack. Ben. That’s
enough. Look around, you morons. Is this what you want your family to see?”
They glanced around and saw the somber faces watching from inside the great
house, all the small ones who had just been taught a bad lesson.
“Bloody hell.
What is she?” Ben muttered, wiping his split lip.
“The voice of
reason.” She stood between them. “You two have to work together while we’re
here. This is your clan, and you are the leaders. Now start acting like it.”
She waited while
they sucked in deep breaths, trying to calm themselves from the rage.
“Do you think
your family should see you shake hands, or did you mean to start a war today?”
Ben breathed an
oath in Gaelic under his breath, and Jack made something pop in Ben’s hand as
he squeezed. She closed her eyes in forbearance.
* * *
At that moment,
three pagers went off. Jack, Chief, and Pops all retrieved their phones and
checked the display with identical motions.
Jack said, “CO
called in the whole team. It’s probably nothing, but we have to go.”
“Run like the
wind,” Cassie replied flatly, as though she had no curiosity at all
about his urgent summons to headquarters. “Nice meeting you, Chief, and ah,
Papa Smurf. I’ll find my own way to the barracks.”
Damned if she
didn’t show them her back and strut away like a tabby cat. Of course he stared,
mesmerized by the dual motion of her hips and swaying hair. A draft of her
honey-anise scent lingered. Catnip. “Eighteen-hundred hours, baby,” he called,
a last ditch effort to claim her with the officers observing.
She spun 180
degrees and walked backward. “Sorry, I have to polish my pistol.” Chief and
Pops sucked in a breath at her suggestive tone—with that purring sound in her
voice, anything sounded like innuendo.
Jack couldn’t
help it. He winked. “Sure thing, darlin.’ After you polish mine.”
* * *
Cassie could
always count on Jack for two things: he would come from near or far at the
sound of food cooking in the morning, and he went ga-ga over women in workout
clothes. Forget lingerie–Jack wanted yoga pants and a racerback top. This
morning Cassie brought out the heavy artillery with both his vices: smoothies
and spandex.
Revenge,
torture–either would do.
Ice clunked
around in the blender as she added peach slices, raw almonds, yogurt, and lemon
rind. Perfect timing—Jack jogged down the stairs and nearly tripped over Cat,
dropped his duffel, and made a beeline straight for the kitchen. He rocked back
on his heels, apparently expecting Anne the housekeeper, not Cassie. She made a
point of opening the fridge as he entered, as though she hadn’t seen him.
When she turned
around, his eyes widened and he visibly swallowed hard.
Unapologetically
his eyes roamed from her long swinging pony tail down over her shoulders
exposed above a skin-tight cropped tank. His eyes lingered on her navel, watching
it contract as she breathed, before scanning up and down her legs once, twice,
and again. He wore the expression of a tiger watching a platter of meat through
the bars of his cage.
“All the
subtlety of an anvil, Jack.”
“I might say the
same to you, sweetheart.”
* * *
“Bait?” Cassie
coughed, then half-shrieked, “Bait? You think it’s funny? Jack—you
promised!”
Jack tried to
tuck her behind his shoulder and interrupt, but Cassie leaned around him and
jabbed an accusing finger at Memphis.
“No more bait,
no more turkey shoots! You tell him no, Memphis, or
answer to me. Find another way, whatever. He comes home in a body bag,
and I come after you.”
She glared, the
silence stretched, and she wanted Jack’s buddy to know she meant it, every
word. Bad enough that they went willingly into danger, no reason they should
play high-stakes games with their lives. No operation was worth that.
Memphis raised
his eyebrows and Jack seemed stunned.
Cassie exhaled
in a gust and muttered, “I think I just grew a few gray hairs.”
Memphis
surprised her with his softened, sympathetic expression. “It takes a strong
woman to love a soldier. You’ll get used to it, honey.” He nodded his head, “We
always come home. Don’t worry.”
Jack sputtered
then argued, “Oh, we’re not—It’s not–”
“You’re gone,
bro. I give it two months, max, and we’ll all be in our dress whites.”
Cassie looked
between them, confused, then hacked into Memphis’ thoughts to discern he meant
their formal Navy uniforms, for the occasion of her and Jack’s supposed wedding.
Wow.
Memphis winked
at their twin shell-shocked expressions.
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