Dark Warrior Unbroken
Chapter 1Lena Wilson was a woman with regrets. Her shoulders sagged as the day's heat and her high heels made the short walk even harder than expected. She'd worn dress clothes out of respect, but her usual jeans and boots might have been a smarter choice. Lord knows, the person she was going to see wouldn't have cared.
Pausing at the top of a rise, she pulled out the simple map the caretaker had given her. She was almost there.
"One, two, three..."
She counted off the headstones to alleviate the oppressive silence, her footsteps slowing as she approached the end of the row, her goal but a few feet away. She crossed that last painful distance and sank to her knees on the cool grass.
Her hand reached out to trace the inscription on the polished granite marker: a name, a couple of dates, a Bible verse, a fireman's badge. Not nearly enough to define the man who was buried there. Maynard Cooper had been her friend, her father figure, her conscience.
At long last the tears came, flowing down her cheeks in hot streaks.
"Coop, I'm so sorry."
Her throat closed, damming up the flood of apologies she owed to the man w ... read full excerpt from: The Talions: Dark Warrior Unbroken ebook
