Today’s teaser comes from How Much For The Whole Night (Shadow Team 1)
The full novel based on the short story, coming 25 July. Get a reminder here: https://rjscott.co.uk/nl
*Unedited snippet*
“What the fuck?” Ali snapped, which summed up how she felt about Ethan popping back into her life after she’d effectively cut them all off. Ethan could prevaricate, skirt the subject, or hit the center of everything in one go.
“Valdez, drugs, kids Ali—just kids.”
She was very quiet. “You’re still working on the Valdez case?”
“I never stopped.”
“Jesus, Ethan, the fuck!”
“If you’d seen what I’d seen… look, it was a skin job that went wrong.”
“A skin job? For fucks sake, Ethan!”
“It was the only way to get in with him, but I couldn’t go through with it, and I found out… jeez, I can’t trust any federal agency right now. The asset has a son—”
“Ryder already contacted me, heard Luca in the background. Are you telling me all three of you were in on this?”
“We’re a team,” Ethan instantly regretted saying that—they’d used to be a team of five, but Trey had died, and when Ali and Luca’s marriage broke apart, so did their unit. Ali had vanished, Luca had searched, Ryder kept their team ticking over with an almost OCD control, and as for Ethan? He’d been in the middle of any action he could find, desperately attempting to hold on to a career that meant anything.
“We were a team until T…” She sighed heavily. “Fuck it; I’m not going over that again. Tell me what you need.”
How Much For The Whole Night?
This book is a brand new novel expanded from a short story of the same name.
A seductive stranger gives Josh everything he wants, but one night of lust could get them both killed.
Driven by a combination of alcohol-induced recklessness and an overwhelming desire for something real, Josh ventures into a dark and seedy bar and lusts after a sexy, enigmatic hooker. When Josh negotiates a price for one night of pleasure he can’t know that when his time with Ethan is over, he'll be left shattered and forever changed by the encounter. Fleeing with his son is the only means of ensuring their survival amidst the chaos of what comes next, and there’s only one man he can trust to keep them safe.
A hooker who isn’t a hooker at all.
Ethan is on the brink of completing a covert operation that will enable him to infiltrate a human trafficking ring. Yet, when his conscience clashes with his mission, Ethan disobeys orders, jeopardizing everything he's worked for. Forced to escape, he takes Josh and his son, but he has nowhere to go, and now, their only hope lies in seeking refuge in an isolated safe house far from prying eyes.
Protecting Josh, Ben, and a tuxedo cat called Oreo, is Ethan's priority. Only he has no choice but to resume his undercover role, and he must leave Josh and Ben behind.
When a gun is pointed at his head, his final thought is that he’s lost everything that matters; can he make it home to his new family? Or will he have to die to protect the people he loves?
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