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Someone wants to see her silenced.
An Emergency Responders story
Back home after a mission trip, nurse and EMT Sara Southerland learns that her cousin’s death might not have been an accident—and now someone wants her dead. The only person she can trust is longtime crush and fire captain Adam Kane. With a stalker on their tail, Adam will do whatever it takes to protect the woman he’s realizing he can’t live without.
VALERIE HANSEN was thirty when she awoke to the presence of the Lord in her life and turned to Jesus. She now lives in a renovated farmhouse in the breathtakingly beautiful Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and is privileged to share her personal faith by telling the stories of her heart for Love Inspired. Life doesn’t get much better than that!
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Fatal Threat
Valerie Hansen
ISBN: 978-1-474-09489-4
FATAL THREAT
© 2019 Valerie Whisenand
Published in Great Britain 2019
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“When did you notice this damage?” Adam asked.
“What damage? What are you talking about?”
Grasping Sara’s shoulders, he turned her in place, still keeping them within the shelter of the broad trunk. “This. See the hole?”
“We have worse things to worry about than a wormhole in a sycamore, Adam.”
He was shaking his head and glancing from side to side as if searching for someone or something. Finally, he said, “This is no wormhole, Sara. The damage is fresh. And judging by the wood that’s been displaced, the hole was probably made by a rifle bullet.”
“Why would anybody go deer hunting in town?”
When he placed both hands on the tree, trapping her, covering her, she began to feel surrounded even though he was only one man.
Adam raised his clear visor and leaned in to bring his lips closer to her ear.
Sara was so nervous, so unhinged by his nearness she almost missed hearing him say, “They weren’t shooting at whitetails, Sara. They were shooting at you.”
Not all friends make good mates. Not all mates make good friends. The person who can find both qualities in one person is truly blessed.
In this story, Sara was assuming unkind thoughts in the minds of others and she was often wrong, yet she based her reactions on those perceptions because
