Coming For You by J.A. Huss
(Dirty Dark and Deadly #3)
Publication date: November 19th 2014
Genres: Erotica, Thriller
Synopsis:
James, Harper, and Sasha are products of their environment. Born into a secret organization that runs a global shadow government, and taught to kill since they were small, they find themselves both indispensable and expendable to all the people they used to trust.
Twenty-eight year old James Fenici has been an assassin since he was sixteen. He’s amassed debts and favors from countless Company brothers and participated in hundreds of Company jobs. But there are not enough favors in the world to clear his debt and make him worthy of the only girl he’s ever wanted.
Eighteen year old Harper Tate is the girl who doesn’t exist. Born and raised on a megayacht in a tropical paradise, she was destined to be a secret until now. No history, no records, and manipulated into having no opinions or ambition of her own, Harper is suddenly presented with more choices than she can handle.
Thirteen year old Sasha Cherlin is the girl who knows everything and understands nothing at all. Her future is filled with vengeance and death, but her dreams are filled with hope and a promise. A promise who no longer wants her.
The game is on, the pieces are in place, and the players have everything to lose. But who can you trust when everyone’s a traitor?
EXCERPT
HARPER
The rolling of the ship eases me out of
my slumber. I’m home. That thought bounces around my head for several seconds
before I remember, this is not home. I’m on my father’s yacht. I don’t open my
eyes and I don’t stop breathing heavily. Instead, I give off a long sleepy sigh
and turn over. I crack one eye as I do that to try and figure out if I’m alone
in the room.
“How are you feeling?” my father asks.
Not alone.
“It’s wearing off, Harper. The doctor
gave you a drug to make it wear off. I hope you realize we only drugged you so
that Tet would leave quietly. But you became combative the last few times we
brought you out of it—”
The last few times?
“—and since you’ve been known to make
rash and dangerous decisions, we were forced to subdue you.”
Well. Since there’s no use pretending
I’m still asleep when they know for a fact I’m not, I open both my eyes. He’s
staring down at me and he looks worried, but then he smiles.
I hate to admit that it’s reassuring.
He’s my father. It’s hard to turn that off.
“How are you feeling?” he asks again.
“OK?” His smile makes the corners of his eyes crinkle up. My father is
handsome, even at fifty-one. His hair is not gray, it’s still dark and it’s
still thick. His suit, however, is gray. And his tie is navy blue. When I was a
girl I always loved to touch them. “Harper, answer me,” he demands, but not
unkindly.
I pause for a few seconds and then nod.
“I’m OK.”
His smile grows and I get a warm
feeling that I don’t immediately understand. I mean, who is this man? How can
he call himself my father when he’s part of this organization and all they want
is to use me as a whore to marry off?
“We’re having dinner in an hour. I’ve
had them prepare your favorites to welcome you home.”
I don’t know what to say to that, so I
look away.
“Harper,” he says sternly so I refocus
on him. “I’m glad you’re home.”
I don’t know what to say to that
either.
“Did you even miss me?”
Why is he asking me these things?
“Because this ship was not the same
without you two.”
I look up at him for that. “Is Nick
here?”
“No.”
I look away.
“He’s hiding. But once he hears you’re
back, he’ll come for you, Harper. I know he will.”
“So I’m a trap? To catch him.”
“Why in the world do you think I’m
trying to catch him? He’s a grown man now. He can do as he pleases. I admit,
he’s messed up my plans for you two. But I’m not wholly dissatisfied about
that.”
I glance at him again. “You’re not?”
“Why would I be unhappy that you were
not given away on your birthday, Harper. I love you. I might not have been the
perfect father, but I was present more than most parents in this modern world.
I did my business on the ship to stay near you. I really do not understand
where this distrust comes from.”
“You promised me to someone.”
“I had to. It’s required. Which is why
I’m not upset that didn’t happen.”
“James said you promised me to him.”
“Tet is mistaken.”
“I remember him, though. From the beach
party when we trend Six.”
“He said no, Harper. I gave him the
opportunity and he said no. That was the end of it for me.”
“But you sent for him every year.”
This makes him hesitate and when I look
up at his face I see the shift. He wasn’t expecting me to know that.
“Tet told you that?”
“James told me that.”
My father sucks in a breath through
clenched teeth. “It would be a very big mistake to mix them up, Harper. James
is not Tet, and Tet is not James.”
I get a really sick feeling in my
stomach at that comment. “What are you talking about?”
“He’s insane. He’s been this way for a
very long time. Years.”
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COME
Dirty,
Dark, & Deadly, #1
My
name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming. I walk the shadows like
darkness itself. I hide in the corners where nobody looks. I live by no rules,
I have no boundaries, I take no prisoners, and I never, ever blink. I am not
your knight in shining armor; I'm your worst nightmare.
My name is James Fenici and you are my target. Only one of
us is getting out alive, and that's not gonna be you. Once your name is on my
list, your life is over. It's a deal I make with death, it's a contract I sign
in blood, it's forgone conclusion--get used to it.
My name is James Fenici and I'm as dirty as they come. But
then one day I saw her. And every monster I thought I was. Every fact I thought
I knew. Every dirty promise I ever turned down came back to slap me in the
face.
My name is James Fenici and I think I
am in love.
COME
BACK
Dirty,
Dark, & Deadly, #2
"Secrets
keep the darkness alive," Harper tells me. But that's not how I see it at
all. Secrets keep me alive, the truth is overrated, honesty is never the
best policy, and when your job title is Assassin Number Six--lies are
your lifeblood.
"Death
is a business deal," I tell her back. And I shake his hand with secrets
every chance I get. They're currency in my world. I pay my debts with them, I
feed on them, they ground me in the present and they promise me a future.
But Harper Tate is everything I've ever wanted. She's my
promise, she's my obsession, she's a delicious fuckable transgression. She can
be mine. She will be mine. All I have to do is complete the mission.
There's just one teeny, tiny problem with the mission.
It's a secret.
AUTHOR BIO
J. A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).
She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.
She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.
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