License to Nerd
by Chris
Redding
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Madison
West appears on Peter Quincy’s doorstep as expected, when her husband, Charlie,
disappears. Peter had been her husband’s best man and had promised to take care
of Madison if something happened to him. Neither Madison nor Peter are what
they seem, but will their lies to each other to save the world, instead fail to
save them from each other?
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Excerpt:
He pushed non-existent glasses up his nose, having forgotten
he’d worn contacts today. An ex-girlfriend suggested them. She’d left him in
the dust long before he could think to purchase them.
Now he had but he still felt glasses sliding down his face.
A glance at his computer screen told him the knocker was not
any of his colleagues. A woman glanced over her shoulder in the image from the
surveillance camera installed outside in the alley.
His eyes narrowed. Who could she be? The resolution was not
as good as he liked, but the new monitor was on order. If he’d remembered to
order it.
He needed to start writing things down.
Sighing he pushed an intercom button. “The front door is on
Main Street. We don’t let anyone--”
“Please. Someone’s following me.”
“But you’re not allowed—“
“I’m scared.”
The hair on the back of his neck went up. She was truly in
need of saving. Without hesitation he unlocked the door. “Come in.”
She rushed into the room. Her momentum would have knocked
down a smaller man.
“Oh, thank you.”
She glanced over her shoulder at the closed and locked door.
“Sit. What’s wrong?”
Q, as his colleagues called him, wished one of the real
detectives was here. He was just the gadget guy. His days of cloak and dagger
were long gone. And those days hadn’t ended well.
That's when he realized who she was. A flood of feelings
he'd thought long dead washed over him. Madison. Why here? Why now? Why her?
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Review:
Madison, beautiful and very desirable, runs to him as she is being followed, a little too closely, by two very dangerous 'bad guys.' She has received something in the mail from her husband and these guys want it. They and their counterparts are willing to kill for whatever this item is. Q considers taking her case when the building in which his agency and his beloved spy-type gadgets are housed gets blown up. This happened accidentally, just after he and Madison make their escape from the danger trailing her. The pair travel to her home, a veritable fortress, while Q finds himself drawn back into the world he had thought he had left behind and a love for Madison he does not want to lose again.
License to Nerdi is a fun story that draws you into it's tale. I love a good spy thriller as well as a love story and a story of good guys, bad guys and a search for a unique and somewhat mystical item as well as the truth and it gives us all of these. ~JoEllen
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Chris Redding
lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, one dog and three rabbits. She graduated from Penn State with a degree
in journalism. When she isn’t writing, she works for her local hospital. Her
books are filled with romance, suspense and thrills.
Links:
Buy Link:
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