To celebrate the upcoming release of Deadlock(June 25th!), my publisher has arranged a Scavenger Hunt! Follow the links at the end of each stop and collect clues along the way! At the end of the Scavenger Hunt, enter your clues to be entered to win the grand prize: a Nespresso Espresso maker and coffee goodies to keep your all-night hacking (or reading) sessions going strong. You might find a few bonus giveaways in hidden links throughout the Scavenger Hunt, too, including print copies of Deadlock!
To get you started, here is the first chapter of Deadlock! I’m so excited for you to meet Lindsey and Jace.
Chapter 1:
I’m going to kill my sister.
Lindsey Morris gritted her teeth into a smile for the photo her jolly Aunt Martha snapped, the silent threat in her head becoming more of an inevitable truth with each passing moment. God knows, it wasn’t unlike her twin sister Lena to flake out on her, but their parents’ fortieth anniversary party was something the two of them had been planning for months. All for Lena to leave Lindsey holding the bag. Again.
Relieved from picture duty at last, she left her parents and hustled in her towering heels across the banquet hall to check on the champagne, dodging cousins and uncles and aunts. She hadn’t seen some of them in years. If a certain sister hadn’t left her running this entire show, she might have had time to stop and catch up with each of them.
All of it had come together nicely, though. Her parents were beaming in front of a life-size poster of one of their wedding pictures, forty years having done nothing to dim their happiness and love for each other. Lindsey snapped a picture of her own before slipping out the door into an echoing hallway to dial Lena. As expected, her sister’s voicemail greeting chirped in her ear.
“Hello?” A long pause ensued, during which Lindsey’s blood pressure spiked. “Gotcha! Sorry, you don’t get to talk to me right now. If you want to talk to me later, better make it good.”
Lindsey waited for the tone. “I don’t want to talk to you. I want to strangle you. Dammit, Lena, where are you?”
Hours passed before she could get away to the blissful solitude of her apartment, where she hoped a glass of wine and a Simpsons marathon might make her feel a little better. But even Bart and Homer’s animated antics weren’t enough. Her anger had burned away to sad ashes, and she couldn’t get her parents’ disappointed faces out of her mind. It would serve Lena right if none of them ever spoke to her again, as drastic as it sounded, but something about Lena made one eager to trust her and believe her when she made the promises she never kept. And the anger Lindsey felt when that inevitably happened could just as easily be turned on herself for enabling her twin, for never enforcing any consequences when Lena flaked out.
But how many times had she tried? How many times had it worked?
Then her glass was empty, and she poured another, sitting alone on her couch and staring at the way the light from the TV played hypnotically through the crimson depths as she swirled the liquid in her glass. Everything she was doing to make herself feel better was having the opposite effect. The fact she had no one to vent her frustrations to made it worse. Bad-mouthing her sister to their parents wasn’t an option, especially today—they were probably on the plane for their anniversary trip to Cabo San Lucas.
Lucky them.
“I need a vacation, too,” Lindsey told her wineglass. It was the only one there to listen. Then, sighing, she set it down on her coffee table and picked up her phone, shooting ramrod straight when she saw that she had somehow missed a text from Lena twenty minutes ago. She’d probably been in the kitchen scavenging.
Sorry. Ran into some trouble. Give Mom and Dad my love. I need a favor. Go to this address and ask him for help. Please. It will all become clear.
An address followed, which Lindsey’s eyes scanned without seeing. Her brain had shorted out on the word “favor.”
“Are you freaking kidding me?” she asked her phone, gripping it with a force that threatened to shatter it.
Lena in trouble was nothing new. Ever since high school, on through college, and even after, she’d been getting herself or someone else into shit she couldn’t always talk her way out of. Thinking Lindsey would simply forget about tonight and rush in to help her was simply par for the course, but Jesus, it had to stop sometime, didn’t it?
One thing was for sure. No way was she going to that address, wherever it was. To some strange place to ask someone she didn’t know for—what, even? Who was she supposed to be looking for? She wasn’t about to let Lena make her look like an idiot on top of everything.
No one else could get her off her warm cocoon on the couch to face the biting cold. She didn’t know what she might find at her sister’s apartment; she didn’t care, but she was going all the same. Lena probably wouldn’t be there, but maybe it wouldn’t be too difficult to nose around and find out where she was. Then she would go find her, even if she had to hop on a plane to do it.
There were some things she desperately needed to say to Lena’s face, and it was well past time.
She rushed through her apartment, throwing on a coat and shoving her feet into boots, her pulse pounding in her ears. No one else on earth could push her buttons like this. Lindsey hadn’t trusted Lena since college, her twin’s antics during that particular time of their lives having been the final straw.
Yes, she was her sister. Yes, Lindsey still loved her as such. Gossip sessions, shopping trips, friendship…those areas had always come easily. But real trust?That ship had sailed years ago, when Lena had pulled what was probably her cruelest stunt of all—at least that Lindsey knew of. The skeletons that could lurk hidden in Lena’s closet were enough to give her cold chills. The two of them had the same face, and Lena probably had enough enemies that Lindsey should look over her own shoulder when she walked down the street.
In the back of the Uber she called because wine and rage and driving didn’t mix, she white-knuckled her purse straps all the way to her sister’s apartment, going over everything she wanted to say in her mind in case Lena was there. Confrontation ordinarily tied her tongue up in knots, and no doubt it would this time.
She had to have her words straight in her head or they would slip right out. But niggling in the back of her mind was the fact that their parents would never get over an irreparable rift between them, no matter the cause. It was enough for her to rein in on a few of the epithets she wished to hurl at Lena’s perpetually smug face. But not many.
If Lena was off having a grand adventure with plans to show up next week thinking all was well—she added the epithets back in.
Long ago, Lena had given Lindsey a key to her apartment so she could water her plants while she was away. The plants had died anyway—Lena didn’t even take care of them herself after she got home from wherever she’d been. But Lindsey had hung on to the key, and it had come in handy more than once. She stalked directly to her sister’s door, lifted her fist to beat on it, thought better of it—she might not even answer—and fit the key into the lock.
The sight that greeted her as she flipped the nearby light switch caused her heart to stutter and her breath to catch, momentarily choking her.
Her sister’s apartment was trashed.
Scavenger Hunt: Where are Lindsey’s parents going for their anniversary trip?
Next stop, Melynda Price
Deadlock releases June 25th! You can pick it up in paperback from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold. Add it on Goodreads!
Cabinet IQ
8305 ?tate Hwy 71 #110, Austin,
TX 78735, United St?te?
254-275-5536
Optimization
nye danske casinoer, [url=http://www.gxhxcb.cn/566747.html]http://www.gxhxcb.cn/566747.html[/url] tilbyder tiltalende spiloplevelser for deltagere. Med fristende bonusser og innovative spilkoncepter, er der en chance for alle at vinde store pr?¦mier.
Singapore’? leading furniture store and spacious furnituee
showroom ?ffers the ideal one-stop shop experience
f?r premium h?me furnishings and strategic furniture
f?r HDB interior design. We deliver modern ?nd
affordable solutions ?ith exciting furniture promotions,
bed f?ame promotions ?nd Singapore furniture sale ?ffers made f?r e?ery Singapore ?ome.
The imp?rtance of furniture in interior design guides ?ver? decision when buying furniture f?r HDB interior design — f?om L-shaped sectional sofas ?nd premium mattresses t? sturdy bed fram??, study com?uter desks ?nd elegant coffee tables — always apply expert tips to buy quality sofa bed ?nd quality coffee table f?r best ?esults.
Wheth?r ?ou’?e refreshing ??ur HDB living ?oom furniture, bedroom
furniture Singapore ?r dining r?om furniture Singapore ?ith
t?e lat?st furniture promotions, o?r thoughtfully curated collections combine contemjporary design,
superior comfort ?nd lasting duravility t? creat? beautiful, functional living spaces that suit modern lifestyles ?cross Singapore.
?t Singapore’? premier furniture store ?nd comprehensive furniture showroom, discover ?o?r
ideal one-sto? shop fo? quality ?ome furnishings and clever furniture f?r HDB interior design Singapore.
?? deliver chic ?nd affordable solutions filled ?ith
excitkng furniture promotions, coffee table promotions ?nd
Singapore furniture sale offer? for ever? Singapore residence.
T?? importance of furniture ?n interior design shines brightest
?hen buying furniture f?r HDB interior design — choose space-saving living
?oom sofas, premium mattresses ?f all sizes, storage bed fr?mes, ergonojic study
desks ?nd elegant coffee tables ?hile applying smart tips t? buy quality bed frame,
quality sofa bed ?nd quality coffee table t? cre?te harmonious, functional homes.
?hether y?u’?e updating yo?r Singapore living ?oom furniture, bedroom furniture Singapore
?r study ro?m furniture using the latest
furniture sale offers, our carefully chosen collections blend contemporary design, superior comfort ?nd exceptional durability ?nto beautiful, functional living
spaces t??t match modern Sinfapore homes.
?s t?e premier furniture store ?nd comprehensive
furniture showroom ?n Singapore, we provide the perfect ?ne-stop shopping experience for quality ?ome
furnishings ?nd intelligent furniture f?r HDB interior design. ?? offer modern and affordable solutions packed ?ith furniture
deals, sofa promotions ?nd Singapore furniture sale ?ffers for e?ery
Singapore household. Mastering t?e ?mportance ?f furniture ?n interior design ?hile buying
furniture for HDB interior design helps ?ou
select thhe perfect mix ?f L-shaped sectional sofas, premium
mattresses, storage bed f?ames, practical study desks ?nd elegant coffee tables — alwa?s follow o?r proven tips tto buy quality bed f?ame, quality sofa bed ?nd quality coffee
table for flawless results. Whethe? y?u ?re revamping you?
living ro?m furniture Singapore, bedroom furniture Singapore
?r study space w?th t?? late?t furniture promotions, ?ur thoughtfully selected collections deliver contemporary design,
unmatched comfort ?nd long-lasting durability
f?r modern Singapore living spaces.
Singapore’? top-rated furniture store and expansive furniture showroom ?s your ideal one-stop destination f?r
premium mattresses. ?? provide chic and affordable solutions enriched ?ith furniture promotions, mattress promotions ?nd Singapore furniture sale ?ffers fo? ?very Singapore h?me.
T?? importance of furniture in interior design ?ecomes
crystal clear when buying furniture f?r HDB interior design — choose quality mattresses ?uch as king size
orthopedic mattresses, queen size cooling gel mattresses, single size firm
latex mattresses ?nd supportive hybrid mattresses t?at
deliver unmatched sleep quality ?n compact HDB bedrooms.
?hether ??u’re refreshing your HDB bedroom furniture
?ith the ?atest furniture promotions, ?ur thoughtfully curated
collections merge contemporary design, superior comfort ?nd
lasting durability t? cr?ate beautiful, functional living spaaces t?at
suit modern lifestyles ?cross Singapore.
Singapore’? top-tier furniture store and comprehensive furniture
showroom stands ?s your go-to ?ne-sto? shop for premium sofas in Singapore.
?e bring contemporary aand affordable solutions t?rough exciting Singapore furniture promotions,
sofa promotions ?nd Singapore furniture sale ?ffers m?de
for ev?ry HDB ?ome. Recognising th? im?ortance of furniture in interior design ?hen buying
furniture for HDB interior design m?ans choosing quality sofas ?uch ?? durable fabric corner sofas,
luxurious Chesterfield sofas, lift-?p storage sofas ?nd sleek 4-seater
recliners f?r effortless style in compact Singapore homes.
?hether refreshing ??ur HDB living room furniture with the lat?st furniture sale ?ffers and affordable sofa Singapore,
?ur thoughtfully curated collections combine contemporary design, superior comfort ?nd lasting durability to create
beautiful, functional living spaces perfect f?r Singapore’s modern lifestyles.
my webpage – air purifier vs dehumidifier
I like what you guys are usually up too. Such clever work and
exposure! Keep up the amazing works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my personal blogroll.
? ?????? ??? ??? ?? ???,????? ???? ? ?????????)?????? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ???????? ? ??? ??? ??????. https://domik-skazki.ru ???? ?? ??? ???????? ??????. ??? ?????????? ???? ????!!! ????? ??? ???? ????????, ??????? ????? ? ???? ??? ???????????? ??? ????????. ? ? ????????? ????? ?????? ????????? ??? ???????? ?? ????, ?????? ????????, ? ? ????????? ??? ??????? ? 18:00 ????? ????? 22:00 ? ????!!! ????? ??? ??????????? ? ???? ????? ??? ???????, ???? ???????? ??? ?? ?????? ??? ?? ?????????. ?? ?????? ?? ??????? ?? ?? ??????. ? ? ????? ?????? ???? ??? ? ?????? ?????? ???????? ? ?????????? ?????? ? ? ????? ??????. ? ??? ????? ??????? ? ??? ??? ??? ???????? ?? ??? ????????. ???? ??????(???????? ?????? ????? 4-6????
Actually no matter if someone doesn’t be aware of after
that its up to other visitors that they will assist,
so here it occurs.
Hi mates, its enormous article on the topic of tutoringand
fully explained, keep it up all the time.
????? 10?????
In the field of furniture, a trgovina s pohi??tvom, [url=http://induchem-eg.com/hello-world/]http://induchem-eg.com/hello-world/[/url] offers a vast selection of stylish pieces for every taste. Customers can browse unique designs and creative solutions to enhance their living spaces.
You really make it appear so easy together with your presentation but I
find this topic to be actually one thing that I believe I would by no means
understand. It sort of feels too complex and very broad for me.
I’m taking a look forward for your next put up, I’ll try to get the hang of it!
I love it when people come together and share thoughts.
Great website, keep it up!
porn, xxx, xnxx, bokep indonesia, scam, bokep, porno,
video 3gp, penipuan