Scavenger Hunt!

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!

 

 

 

Published by Cherrie Lynn

93,748 thoughts on “Scavenger Hunt!”

  4. ruby fortune online pokies canada, united kingdom roulette for
    mobile phones and australian top 20 casino sites (Madge) free spins, or canadian pokies free spins

  5. Baby’s got huge melon breastsMature thumbnail galleries drakeItalian actresses nude nude italian womenFre voyeur picsStove
    vintage antique marlee denver crestHidden came porn4 erotic lounge volSex in bed
    big boobsGirls first orgasm on videoHas marissa miller ever been nude
    xnxx Freeware latex editorPornstar lena juliettShaven womens pussyDick thomas dawkins family reunionFree naked gay guy chatFree
    video clip gay cock suckingBang clip gang gay movieVanessa hugdins nudeChubby women at https://xnxxvids.cc Aebn solo
    latino boy masturbationPee fetish storiesVanessa llane hi teen club 10Dilf gay videosKelly
    reilly he kills coppers sexBurkhart amateurHuge cocks fucking
    wet squirting pussies xnxx Ex girlfriend nude web camsBundonas cum compilationFree teen fucking thumbsHidden camera
    secret sex videosFree sexy wives photosCostello twins nakesHow you know you re gayFree ligerie porn galleryiesAdult personals for couplesJacksonville florida escorts backpageLuxury xxxBrazilian model pussyBabe
    spank clips blogspotAvatar the last air beaner pornDick emery dvdGay
    bondage auditionFree milf threesome fucking vidoesBlack and white oral sexBottom fishing set upGay
    lacrosse now sex wisconsinHow big should the pussy be at 16

  7. An outstanding share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a coworker who had been doing a little
    homework on this. And he in fact bought me lunch due to the fact that I found it for him…
    lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thanks for the meal!!
    But yeah, thanx for spending time to discuss this subject
    here on your blog.

  8. Greate post. Keep posting such kind of info on your site.
    Im really impressed by your site.
    Hi there, You’ve performed a fantastic job. I will definitely
    digg it and individually suggest to my friends. I’m sure they’ll be benefited
    from this site.

  13. Tube teen assBig boobs alBig breast xxx pictureFuck facialNude valentine picWorld sex mpviesNude hawaii thumbsTeens hq tgp xnxx Facial abust kyra steeleFree mature ppicsGold diamond ring singed ax vintageKagome
    naked in episode of inuyashaChessel paper recorder
    strip chartHolloway trannyExtreme insertions fetish video galleryDoggie anal
    sexVoyeur dot comFeet upskirt https://xnxxmega.com/ Young boys getting a blow jobSpells to increase breast freeRound bottom flask usesSafflower oil penisOrgasm births60 s uk sexTeen blonde
    intercourseBibtex bibliography latexPorn videos of lily allenHow to fist girlfriend xnxx Erotic
    teen forced storiesTera patrick’s ultimate erotic love dollKaila yu pornoHardcore punk girl pornGay men that smokeMature milf action asianNudist clubs australiaMelanie chartoff nudeSearch enigine pornoLesbian honeymoon 014Asian massage parlor
    orlando flScientific research nudeOnline sex role play gamesBbw cute cateChristian game
    for pre teenAdvertising breast reductionBisexual
    amature movies

  16. We’re a group of volunteers and opening a brand new scheme in our community.
    Your site provided us with valuable info to work on. You have performed an impressive activity and our whole group will be grateful
    to you.

  18. Julia ford actress nakedVaginal herpes simplexPussy sucking iceAdult social care tewkesbury gloucesterCollege
    guys sex girlfriendIroning movie sexAbn theater xxx pay per viewEbony bbw pantsSexy pussys cumingMother don sex xnxx
    Hetero anal sex storiesActress boob slip at awards ceremonyFree lesbian movies blackmailedIs barack obama asianNaked strong meanFemdom hypnosis clipsVintage durham duplex razorGay boys shower
    https://xnxxzh.cc/ Bear gallery gay maleAnal joke sexPussy willows pruningSexy naked aliErotic panty
    thief storiesBig ass tiddiesTransexuals fucking womanBig tits suck fuckLiz pee
    xnxx Comic strip queen alitaVintage aria pro
    iiSex musiTila nguyen free porn picCan condom get have if pregnant sexThings women shove in their pussyHentai
    movie clips disciplineFree picture of naked
    college straight manWomen savagely fucked in publicAdult flash games free downloadUnshaved pussy picsXhamster bbw
    mother daughter

  21. Your explanation makes it clear that Independent Living is more like a retirement community, while Nursing Homes are more clinical. That’s consistent with what I’ve read on elder care when comparing different senior housing models.

  23. slots no deposit bonus uk, how to win on pokie machines usa and uk casinos free spins, or united statesn online poker

    Also visit my blog apa yang dimaksud dari roulette (Michal)

  32. Great beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your web site,
    how can i subscribe for a blog website? The account
    helped me a acceptable deal. I had been tiny bit acquainted of this your
    broadcast offered bright clear idea

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *