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Lockdown

Andrea Kane

Publisher: MIRA

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Summary

Honeymooning FBI agents are called to rescue a bridal party held hostage in this romantic suspense short story from a New York Times–bestselling author. 
 
In this absorbing Thriller Short, New York Times–bestselling author Andrea Kane melds the highs and lows of life. A wedding, a honeymoon and a hostage situation that runs high odds of turning out badly. 
 
Basking in an idyllic honeymoon setting, former FBI hostage negotiator Sloan Burbank Parker is strolling the beach with her new husband one minute and negotiating to save three hostages the next in a wedding robbery gone bad. The hostages are a bride, her three-year-old son and his godmother Claire, a psychic. It takes all of Sloan’s skills and Claire’s special abilities to expose what’s really happening and get everyone out alive.
Available since: 01/29/2018.
Print length: 23 pages.

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