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    Strip

    By Adrianna Dane

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    Logan Callahan fleeced people for a living. He'd been part of an organization of grifters, led by Nell Dubrowski, who stripped marks of everything they owned, leaving them bare and bleeding. But Logan broke free of his past and his addictions. Now, in the profession of forensic accounting, he helps people ferret out exactly the type of con on which Nell Dubrowski fed, yet not colliding with his old demons. Until a call from an investigator dredges up his dark, secret past.

    Kate Malone is everything Nell is not. Young, sensual, and...honest. Kate's father is the latest mark for Nell, and Logan wants nothing more than to help bring down the woman who represents everything he loathes. Forty-eight hours in a hotel room's king-size bed with nothing between him and the sensual, adventurous Kate but hot flesh and searing kisses has him vowing to protect her from Nell and her kind. But Logan has never looked good in silver, and he isn't exactly cut out to play white knight. And revealing his past to Kate might destroy the deepening connection he feels with the woman he hopes will be his future.

    Too many secrets can destroy any relationship, but when Logan finds himself stripped bare and on the wrong end of a loaded gun, he knows that death would be far preferable than to live a life without Kate Malone...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDream Romantic Unlimited LLC
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781386080763
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    Adrianna Dane

    Adrianna Dane has been putting pen to paper since the age of ten. She currently resides in the state of Washington. She has a great fondness for using a fountain pen when writing her first drafts. Hobby interests are varied, including photography and traveling. The first defining love story Adrianna read back in junior high school was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and that set her on the road to her long-standing love affair with books of all genres. Her inspiration in writing often can be found by listening to song lyrics, from hard rock to classical, and reading poetry by such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ranier Maria Rilke. But finding inspiration for her stories truly has no boundaries for Adrianna. In 2006, her dark fantasy GLBT story, Body Parts, won its category in the Dream Realm Awards. Adrianna has written more than 100 stories, short, novella, and novel length, delving into many facets of the human condition - contemporary, futuristic, and fantasy, and all the flavors therein and in between. In other words, wherever the story and the characters, as well as their intricate stories, take her imagination, then her pen and/or computer keyboard, are sure to follow.

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      Strip - Adrianna Dane

      Logan Callahan fleeced people for a living. He’d been part of an organization of grifters, led by Nell Dubrowski, who stripped marks of everything they owned, leaving them bare and bleeding. But Logan broke free of his past and his addictions. Now, in the profession of forensic accounting, he helps people ferret out exactly the type of con on which Nell Dubrowski fed, yet not colliding with his old demons. Until a call from an investigator dredges up his dark, secret past.

      Kate Malone is everything Nell is not. Young, sensual, and...honest. Kate’s father is the latest mark for Nell, and Logan wants nothing more than to help bring down the woman who represents everything he loathes. Forty-eight hours in a hotel room’s king-size bed with nothing between him and the sensual, adventurous Kate but hot flesh and searing kisses has him vowing to protect her from Nell and her kind. But Logan has never looked good in silver, and he isn’t exactly cut out to play white knight. And revealing his past to Kate might destroy the deepening connection he feels with the woman he hopes will be his future.

      Too many secrets can destroy any relationship, but when Logan finds himself stripped bare and on the wrong end of a loaded gun, he knows that death would be far preferable than to live a life without Kate Malone...

      This story is a work of original fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the author.

      This book remains the copyrighted property of the author.

      Copyright 2018 by Adrianna Dane

      Cover Art Designs by T. A. Gallup

      This story was originally released in November 2008 by Amber Quill Press/Amber Heat

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      CAUTION: This story contains explicit sexual situations and strong language. You must be over the age of 18 years of age to read this story.

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      By Adrianna Dane

      Dream Romantic Unlimited, LLC

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Author Bio

      Networking Links

      Chapter One

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      Logan walked into the courtroom and took a seat at the back of the room. He knew he shouldn’t be here. If the investigator hadn’t called he might have been able to ignore her presence in town. In this state. Maybe it was curiosity, like stopping at the scene of a car accident, that had him wanting to see her.

      Ten years since he’d last had contact with her. His heart thundered in his chest like a steam engine set to full ahead. Visions blurred and melded together racing to catch up with him. Or to latch onto him and yank him back into the nightmare. As he watched she turned to the dark-haired man sitting next to her, who Logan surmised was her attorney, and studied her profile. Damn, it didn’t seem like she’d aged even a day. But he had. Thirty-seven somehow wasn’t what he’d expected and he felt every bit of those years. Still rudderless, without real purpose. And with no family ties to speak of. The sense of burned-out and used up is what crossed his mind. Probably because he’d tried to pack most of that life into his first twenty-five years. Of course, at seventeen he hadn’t known what he wanted to do with his life. And it hadn’t seemed like anyone really cared what he did. Until he’d met Nell Dubrowski.

      At seventeen Logan had thought he’d wanted the older woman who looked so fantastic in the little red-hot bikini. And that he’d do anything to have her. To be what she wanted. At seventeen it hadn’t matter to him how many lovers she’d had. It only made her more appealing to him. He just wanted to belong somewhere, to someone. It hadn’t mattered that she was probably twenty years older than he was. It had made her all the more desirable to him. It hadn’t even mattered that his own father was one of her lovers. He and his father had been more strangers than anything else since Logan’s mother’s death when Logan was ten.

      My God, what kind of man had Logan been? And why hadn’t his father cared when the woman had finally seduced Logan into her bed, to do her bidding. She was the one who’d shown him the tricks of the trade, taught him how to play a con smooth as you please, drawing him even deeper into her web right after Logan’s father had gone to prison for twenty-five years...for following her orders.

      But darling, delicate Nell had managed to slip through the law’s net once again. Letting one of her men take the fall for her. The orgies, the drugs, the way she bound them all to her, making them do anything she demanded. No step taken without the queen bee’s say so.

      And she loved her games. Even now, he watched her bat her long eyelashes at the man she’d hired to extricate her from another battle where good would never triumph. He saw her lay a pale, jeweled hand on his arm, and give him that vulnerable look that shoved Logan right back into the past.

      Visions of the night of initiation leaked into his mind. They were in the mansion on the hill. As it happened, out of all the properties she’d bilked from her many lovers, it was the only house that remained in her name. It was in the blue and peach decorated front room of Widow’s Lure. How aptly named. There were four men in the room that night. He was surprised he even remembered their names. Lars was her current right-hand man. Then there was Dan, Luke, and Calvin. All of the

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