Sweet
Retaliation
Mob
Tracker Series Book 1
by
Mimi Barbour
Genre:
Romantic Suspense
A
virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story
won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an
all-nighter…
She
watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop
them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her
self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she
can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid. When she
finds a stash of loot in her brother’s gym locker, she has the
means.
Now
all she needs is the guts to make every one of those low-life gang
members pay.
People
might think detectives are hard-assed cops with no home life, but
Trace McGuire has a dying mom he loves fiercely. Already stressed
over his personal problems, he takes a bullet for a virgin beauty
hiding while mobsters shoot her brother.
This
chick draws out every protective instinct he thought had
disintegrated over years on the job and he becomes invested – in
her hot body, her plans for retaliation and her fighting
spirit.
Helpless,
he watches her enter the seedy underworld that’ll eat her
alive.
Then
he sees her fight.
And
wonders if they’ll survive her.
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Chapter One
What the hell was she doing following her brother, especially at night? Cassidy Santino didn’t do darkness. Not in the slums of a city like Las Vegas when, molasses thick, it threatened and terrified.
Gagging, sweating, she’d reached the end of her backbone. Thoughts of giving up and retreating gobbled up the small amount of bravery still hanging on by a thread, making her hesitate. Then worry for her twin, Raoul, kicked in.
Biting her lip, she eased forward so she could see around the rickety fence into the semi-lit alley behind a big warehouse. A group of men milled about in a circle. Two of them were head-to-head in a heated discussion. Adrenalin kicked in when she saw her brother step out of the circle.
Raoul’s shoulders were hunched in the same way he’d hold himself when their father had intimidated him as a boy. She watched him flinch and start to turn away. Then the man he’d been arguing with let out a bellow, backhanded him across the face and shoved hard. Before she could get her bewildered brain to accept the incident, Raoul went down and the other men crowded in and began kicking him.
No! Stop!
Her mind screamed the words, but her voice didn’t connect. It froze. When she opened her mouth fear struck her mute. Though she tried to release her rage, to force sound past the blockage in her throat, not even a peep escaped. She’d never felt so useless in all her sad, ineffectual years. Forcing her limbs to move, she fell forward onto her knees but couldn’t get her leg muscles to function.
Infuriating seconds ticked by as she watched the men work her brother over like
he was a soccer ball, rather than a human being.
God! Please…
Movement, shuffling, a voice called out from another direction. “Police. Stop what you’re doing and back away. Get your hands up. Do it now!”
Thank you, Lord! Confidence arrived with the authorities, and Cassi felt a flood of energy. Springing to her feet, she started forward. Before she went two steps, one of the assailants stepped over to Raoul, extended his arm and a gunshot changed the rest of her life. She heard her twin grunt and saw his body jerk.
“No!”
Fear vanished under her instinctive urgency to get to Raoul. She ran. To help him, save him, give up her life for him. He was all she had in the world, the only one who mattered.
Blinded by grief, unaware of the loud gunplay going on around her, she fell to her knees next to his lifeless form. Before she had a chance to understand the danger, a man dashed out, swept her to the side and covered her with his own body.
“Keep down.” Rough, his hands hurting, he pushed her head under his chest while she wiggled to get back to Raoul. “Stop it. You’ll get us both killed.” His voice, hard and angry drew her attention. She shook away from his hand and looked at him, trying to explain that the injured man was her brother and he needed help. When their eyes met, the bit of light from the building’s illumination revealed his face.
Deep blue eyes, encircled with a dark outer ring of pure determination, penetrated for an instant, an order clear and visible that only a man in command could produce. Compelled to obey, but overridden by her need to get to Raoul, she kept pushing at him, until she felt him jerk and heard his grunt of pain.
One of those monsters had shot her rescuer. Disbelief overwhelmed and in seconds the relentless fear returned. Imprisoned and helpless, the horror of the moment clawed at her sanity. Surrendering to its magnetic lure, darkness claimed her, and she knew no more.
Sweet
Justice
Mob
Tracker Series Book 2
Cassidy
Santino is closing in on the mobsters who murdered her brother and
there’s no way she’s giving up her quest for revenge. She’s
working at a seedy bar where the gang members hang out so she can dig
up information that might lead to finding his killers. When jealous
hookers and sleazy barmaids try forcing her to leave, she fights
back. For the love of an old rascal who owns the neighborhood gym,
she helps train his protégé in the boxing ring. For her sanity, she
clings to her relationship with the one man who makes life worth
living..
Detective
Trace McGuire loses his mother, the person who’s meant everything
to him until Cassidy Santino explodes into his life. This chick’s
got him so tied up that he’s willing to shirk responsibilities in
his job and cut her slack for interfering in his investigation. But,
when Cassidy keeps putting herself in danger from the lunatic who
owns the bar where she works. That’s where he draws the line. He's
determined to protect her, even if she fights him every damn inch of
the way. And man… can this girl fight!
Sweet
Resolution
Mob
Tracker Series Book 3
Cass
is determined to find the female who was there the night the gang
murdered her brother. If the missing woman turns out to be the
killer, then she has to pay. Walking the nightly tightrope at the bar
where she’s employed, staying out of the clutches of the she-devil
boss who wants her, and dealing with the L.A. scumbag who’s taken a
dislike to her, the battles are constant. One thing she can’t bear
to lose - the affections of the detective whose patience with her
stubbornness is fragile. When he’s taken hostage, life goes into an
even deeper spiral of conflicts and tension.
Detective
Trace McGuire can’t bear to watch the love of his life being sucked
into the darkness and dysfunction of the Lipstick Club where she
bartends. He wants her free of the nightmare and goes to great
lengths to make it happen. But when they take him prisoner, how can
he help her?
How
can he help himself?
Sweet
Endings
Mob
Tracker Series Book 4
The
challenges that Cassi faces in this last book are enormous. Trace has
been kidnapped, and every passing day destroys her hope that he’s
alive.
The
US Featherweight Champion seeks revenge in a rematch that Cassi
refuses to even talk about. But she worries how her rejection will
affect Arlene and Rusty.
The
female witness of her brother’s murder is still at large. Always in
the back of Cassi’s mind is the craving to learn the truth and
finally get her revenge.
The
Vegas mob she works for is entangled in a gang war, and patrons of
the Lipstick Club become even more dysfunctional. She’s forced to
hide from the crazy-assed, she-devil gang boss who wants her and is
closing in.
All
Cassi yearns for is that Trace will soon come back to her -
alive.
Trace
faces his imprisonment with an intense determination to break free -
but how? His cell is impregnable. Every waking moment, he’s filled
with the need to get back to Cassi. Though the girl fights like a
hellion, she’s as soft-hearted as an angel, and he can’t stand
the thought that he might die before ever seeing her again.
Visualizing her world of turmoil and danger, he won’t give up.
How
can he?
She
needs him…
Sweet
Faith
Mob
Tracker Series Book 5
Hooker
turned nanny, Faith Whitely, known to her johns as Sunshine, has
struggled to be a decent person all her life. And her options were
never the same as the good girls in town. Growing up with a sick
mother and limited resources, she does the best she can until a man
she loves dies in a violent, intolerable situation where she blames
herself. Then her world crumbles into drugs and self-hate. She’s
saved by the sound of a baby’s cry, an unmanageable child who she
bonds with and then needs as much as she wants his daddy.
Any
luck Steven Corella has with the women in his life has been all bad.
Sensitive, a man who works in a job unsuited to his inner nature, he
manages to fool the world. When he finds he’s to become a daddy,
the tough-guy personality he’s been portraying all along turns
real. He hardens his heart and hides behind thick walls of protection
he’s carefully erected. And then Sunshine enters his world, and
nothing makes sense anymore.
Sweet Leni
Mob Tracker Series Book
6
Leni
Santino’s happy life turns upside down from five words uttered
carelessly, “Sergio Mandalas killed your cousin.”
Stunned
speechless, her heart closes and the hard facade she’d warn in the
past returns. Everything she loves becomes meaningless.
While
her wonderful Mani, the man who gave up his future for her, died
senselessly, how can she carry on, knowing his killer walks
free?
When
her long-lost mother, a woman she’d never met, appears to warn her
that a blackmailer has found out the family secret, everything spins
unbearably out of control.
Detective
Mike Kowalski loves the spirited boxing chick in every way a man can
idolize his woman. But he feels her slipping away. With the help of
their friends, he tries to keep her safe. In the end, the choices
were hers to make. All he could do was stand by and watch…
And
be ready to pick up the pieces.
Mimi
is an incredibly busy NYT and USA Today award-winning, best-selling
author who has seven series to her credit. The Vicarage Bench Series
– Spirit/Time -Travel tales that have a surprising twist / The
Angels with Attitude Series – Angels Love Romance / The Elvis
Series – Make an Elvis song a book / Vegas Series – 6 books full
of romantic suspense, humor and gritty conflicts / and… the
fast-paced, edgy, humorous, romantic suspense, Undercover FBI Series
/The Holiday Heatwarmer Series - puppies become cupids. And the
latest, explosive Mob Tracker Series - six books full of conflicts
and characters you'll hate to leave.
Mimi
lives on the East coast of Vancouver Island with her husband and
writes her various romances with tongue in cheek and a mad glint in
her eye. She’s been known to say: “If I can steal a booklover’s
attention away from their every-day grind, absorb them into a fantasy
love story, and make them care about the ending, then I’ve done my
job.”
**1st
place prize of the 2015 - Chanticleer Reviews - Clue Awards. Special
Agent Francesca
**A
TOUCH OF PASSION, has just become the 2016 WINNER of The Romance
Reviews Readers' Choice Awards.
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