Out of the Mist
Excerpt
Chapter 1
It was dusk - too late for sunset, too early for stars. Ian MacKenzie had expected at least another hour of daylight, but night was coming fast to the Smoky Mountains. Making matters worse was the storm blowing in from the west. Slate-gray clouds rolled across the rounded mountaintops; thunder rumbled ominously in the distance.
Before being talked into this damn fool scheme, he'd been on his way to Monte Carlo, where he'd planned to spend the next two weeks sailing and romancing supermodels and princesses.
Instead, he'd come to this remote mountain borderland between North Carolina and Tennessee to catch a thief. The plan was to reclaim his family's property, by stealing it back if necessary.
Then, his duty done, his conscience cleansed, he was heading to Monaco to begin making up for six long months of celibacy.
The sky darkened like a black shawl settling over the mountains. The dashboard thermometer revealed that the temperature outside his rental car was plummeting, and ominous drops of rain began spattering the windshield.
"This is insane." Ian had been saying that ever since he'd landed in Washington, D.C., fr ... read full excerpt from: Out of the Mist ebook
