No Reason to Hide
by P.H. Turner
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GENRE: Romance
Mystery
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BLURB:
Evil knows your name, Navajo cop Jessica Akee finds the body
of a young male sprawled in the weeds behind a convenience store on the
Reservation. What at first looks like just another gang killing is a far more
disturbing murder. On loan from the Phoenix PD, top cop Charlie Stone partners
with Jessica to find the killer. She harbors a dark secret, but Charlie isn't
going to let her keep it... he extends
his hand, Jessica's younger brother runs with a Native gang, dabbles in rituals
best left alone, and ignores Jessica's pleas for him to turn away from the
razor's edge between good and evil and charms you into the abyss. When her brother lifts the veil between the
two worlds, the Shadow Warrior slips in seeking revenge. All that is human of
Ricky is stripped away, and Jessica believes the last card has been played, but
the Shadow Warrior turns his vengeance on her. Can Charlie save her before the
demon claims Jessica as his own and returns to the bottom of the abyss?
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EXCERPT:
At 6:30 a.m., I received a routine disturbance call out on
the Navajo Nation. The manager of the Tuba City 7Eleven on South Indian Route
101 called in a complaint of kids messing around his propane tank again. He
hadn't gone out into the gloom to investigate. That was my job. The lights from
the storefront didn't penetrate into the deep shadows around the tank. Had the tank
not gleamed white in the weak dawn light, I would have walked past it for the
thick brush and brambles surrounding it.
The aromatic scrub released its tang when
I pushed it aside. I held fast to my gun with one hand and a heavy MagLite
with the other. The body was behind the propane tank in a clump of kneehigh
weeds smashed down by heavy foot traffic.
The sun was just coloring the horizon a thin crescent of
smudged yellow, casting long shanks of light into the dark. I approached the
body cautiously, not knowing who might be watching from the scrubland between
the 7Eleven and the few houses scattered across a field to the west.
The MagLite shone obscenely bright on the body.
Tiny skitters of fear prickled my neck. I sensed a watcher. The
light desert breeze teased tendrils of my hair from the knot at my neck.
Something foul licked at the edges of the wind, and a guttural, harsh, whisper,
"Heyya, heyya, heyya" swirled menacingly around me.
No one moved in the brush, but I felt a presence. Though his
chant no longer rode on the wind, goosebumps rose on my arms and fear banded my
chest. I touched the microphone button on my body com unit and called for
backup from my fellow officers with the Navajo police.
Fewer than two hundred of us patrolled the largest Indian
Reservation in the United States, and I was a young female officer desperate to
make my bones. I wanted backup, but I also wanted to be the lead on the murder
case.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
P.H. Turner
I call Austin, Texas home now after working on the East and
West coasts, the Rocky Mountains, and an island in the Gulf of Mexico. I've
come full circle to live and work close to the farm my family settled in the
1850's.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and years in the news business
provided lots of peculiar characters and
stories to write about. My books are set in my favorite places, the desert canyons
and high mountains of the American West.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pht97
@pht97
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Kindle Scout Program:
The end of the voting period is May 22.
Amazon's Kindle Scout program has accepted my latest
mystery, No Reason to Hide.
Kindle Scout is reader powered publishing for new, never before published
books.
It’s a place where readers help decide if a book gets published by
Kindle Press.
Please click my link https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/3J7NFQQ1E13CJ
and vote for my novel by clicking the Nominate Me button.
My book stays in the
Kindle Scout program until May 22. You're not committing to purchase the book. As a thank you from Amazon and me, you will receive a free ecopy of No Reason
to Hide, if the book is accepted for publication.
Please share with friends and
thank you!
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GIVEAWAY!!
The author will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a
randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
Hi P.H. Turner! So happy to be able to help you celebrate the release of your new book, "No Reason to Hide!" Congrats and good luck on the book tour!
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