Annabelle
Spencer’s life is every girl’s dream. She has wonderful parents, great friends,
and of course the perfect boyfriend, Jack Roberts. That all changes on her
sixteenth birthday when her life comes crashing down around her. Her dream
night turns into a nightmare when Jack is murdered right in front of her, and
she’s kidnapped by his murderer, Carter Thomas, a big time drug and arms
dealer.
After
ten months of being with Carter, she’s found, but the experience has totally
changed her. She’s no longer the happy-go-lucky girl that everyone used to know
and love; she’s now cold, hard and suffers from night terrors. It appears that
Carter broke not only her body, but her spirit too. A shadow of her former
self, her slogan for life is now: ‘If you don’t care about anything, then you
have nothing to lose’.
Carter
is currently serving time for the murder of Jack, a conviction that Anna helped
secure. But his retrial is coming up because some key evidence appears to have
been tampered with. Unbeknown to Anna, death threats are being received by her
father, the Senator. It appears that Carter is still interested in Anna and
will stop at nothing to get her back.
Ashton
Taylor is brought in to protect her. He’s a newly qualified SWAT agent, a
bright spark, the agency’s new golden boy. He is assigned undercover, posing as
her boyfriend. His job is to help her through college and keep her safe until
the end of the trial in eight months’ time.
For
three years she has been the broken, damaged girl, refusing to feel emotion or
pain, but can Ashton help her rebuild her life and finally deal with the grief
of losing her childhood sweetheart? Will he be the one to make her see that
life is, in fact, worth living and that not all men will hurt her?
All
the while, the shadow of the trial looms over the both of them, taunting them,
reminding them that it isn’t over yet. After all, Carter Thomas will stop at
nothing to be reunited with his ‘Princess’.
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Excerpt
“It’s very nice to meet you, sir.”
“You too, Agent Taylor. This is my wife,
Melissa.” He gestured to the lady on the couch. I turned and smiled as it
clicked into place why she’d looked so familiar when I stepped into the room.
She looked like Annabelle, but Annabelle had a radiant beauty that far
surpassed her mother’s.
“It’s nice to meet you, ma’am,” I nodded.
“You too. Hopefully you’ll last longer than
the other near guards; Annabelle needs some stability,” she said sadly.
Senator Spencer cleared his throat. “So,
Agent Taylor, I’ve read your file, and I must say it’s mighty impressive. Your
reputation is incredible at the agency. They have exceptionally high hopes for
you.” He gestured to the couch for me to sit. “You’ve read your brief, I
assume?” I nodded in confirmation and sat as instructed. “Do you have any
questions before you meet Annabelle?”
I nodded. “Only one, sir. I was wondering
why you don’t just tell Miss Spencer about the threats so that she would be
more cooperative with her guards. It would be a lot easier to protect her, and
ultimately make her safer, if she were more accommodating.”
Mrs Spencer gasped and the Senator shook
his head fiercely. “Annabelle is very fragile. She doesn’t like to show it, but
she’s still grieving for Jack, and what that animal did to her.” His hand
clenched into a fist before he took a deep breath and composed himself. I liked
this guy already. “She can’t be told. She barely copes as it is, she doesn’t
need anything else to worry about on top.” He stood up and walked to his desk,
picking up his phone. “Maddy, could you have Annabelle come in here now,
please?”
His face still looked sad with deep pain
across it. This man had worries about his daughter that no father should ever
have to go through. I hadn’t thought about them when I read her file. Thinking
about it now though, I realised that they had been through hell too. Their
sixteen year old daughter goes missing, presumed dead, then months later she’s
found broken, abused, and totally a changed person. They had to watch her sink
into depression and attempt suicide and turn into a cold, heartless person, and
now they couldn’t even hug her or hold her hand.
The phone on the desk buzzed, and Maddy’s
voice came through the intercom. “Senator, Annabelle’s here,” she announced.
“Okay, Maddy, send her in,” the Senator
answered, glancing at me, his expression almost apologetic.
A few seconds later she walked into the
room. As soon as I laid eyes on her, I knew I was in trouble. She looked so
incredibly vulnerable. Her eyes were cold and distant and held a pain that I
couldn’t bear to think about. She had seen things that no one should ever see.
Carter had broken not only her body, but her spirit too.
Her eyes only flicked to me for a split
second and held no reaction whatsoever before she turned to her father. My
heart skipped a beat and my stomach tied in a knot. I wanted to run to her,
wrap my arms around her, and tell her everything would be okay. I wanted to
make her smile and hear her laugh.
Oh
fuck it; I really am in deep shit!
About the Author
Kirsty
Moseley has always been a passionate reader since she was a little girl,
devouring books overnight, barely sleeping and paying for it at school the next
day. Writing has come similarly to her and once she discovered Wattpad, she
finally plucked up the courage to post one of her stories. Seven million reads
later, she self-published her debut novel THE BOY WHO SNEAKS IN MY BEDROOM
WINDOW, which later became one of 10 Finalists for the 2012 Goodreads' Choice
Awards, Best YA Fiction. Shocked and overwhelmed by the response, she later
published her second and third novels, Always You and Free Falling.
If
she had to sum herself up in one word, it would probably be 'daydreamer' - but
unlike most of her school teachers, she doesn't necessarily view that as a bad
thing. After all, she read somewhere once that books are like waking dreams....
She
lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and son.
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