so glad you had the opportunity to read Running Target. I hope you enjoyed the story. The characters each had to make some hard choices that I hope you’ll be able to relate to, though maybe you haven’t been chased by drug runners with machine guns, or maybe you haven’t had to choose between your job and keeping someone you love safe. Still, the choices we face every day don’t seem all that much easier.
I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t know how to trust in the Lord. I pray if you don’t already trust in Him, that you’ll learn to do just that, and soon.
If you’d like to find out more about my books, you can visit my website at www.elizabethgoddard.com.
Many blessings!
Elizabeth Goddard
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
—Psalms 59:1
To Jesus. You’re my all in all.
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“Don’t move!” Deputy Bree Carrington aimed her newly issued Glock 22 fifteen-round semiautomatic pistol at three men standing in the twenty-four-foot fishing boat.
Though she had the authority of the law behind her, and had trained for a day such as this, her palms slicked and heart pounded.
Inside, she shook.
Still, she allowed her training to kick in, keeping her weapon aimed and level. She never wanted to have to use it, but a sick feeling stirred in her gut—today could be the day when she would have no choice. She pointed the Glock at the three muscled men wearing scowls. Men who made the boat look too small. Men who carried more powerful weapons than she did. Powerful and illegal.
If they got their hands on those...
Well, she couldn’t let that happen.
On this hotter-than-usual summer day, sweat beaded at her temples and back.
Next to her, Deputy Jayce McBride tethered the vessels together.
Bree and Jayce had been patrolling the river when she’d spotted them—just three men out on a boat whose motor had failed on them.
Bree had headed toward them to assist, though the men had insisted they needed no help. But it
