Intuition
Psychic Crossroads Book Two
by Anna Durand
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Released on 6/15/2015
SYNOPSIS
Ultimate power comes at the ultimate price.
Torn apart by their haunted pasts,
Grace Powell and her fiancé David Ransom are
struggling to reclaim their passionate bond.
She yearns for a normal life — one without
danger and paranormal powers — but David
can't renounce his obsession with hunting
down rogue scientist Karl Tesler,
who abducts and tortures psychics.
David endured Tesler's tactics himself,
but despite what Grace believes, he's not out for revenge.
Tesler covets her unprecedented abilities and her connection
to a vast and mysterious source of psychic energy
known as the Golden Power.
He will stop at nothing to possess her,
and David will do anything — even abandon and lie to her — to protect Grace.
With a psychic stalker on her trail,
Grace charges into a desperate mission to uncover the
truth about David's obsession and his secret past.
But Tesler's agents are closing in on
her, and a terrifying new enemy is rising…
As events drive Grace and David toward a battle of epic proportions,
they must risk everything — their relationship,
their lives,
and even their souls — to defeat an enemy
who wields unspeakable psychic power.
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EXCERPT
Grace Powell slammed the front door.
The cool air inside the house flushed away the sultry October heat pasted to her skin.
She stalked across the living room, down the hall, and into the bedroom.
She fumbled for the light switch, her fingers slipping off the plastic.
Dammit.
No one but David Ransom detonated her temper like this.
She flicked the switch, and light flooded the room.
The bed stood empty, the sheets crumpled at the foot.
They'd fled the house in a near-panic, racing from their home to the Cincinnati airport
with tires screeching,
all because of a thirty-second phone call David received at one a.m.
Another tip from a questionable source.
Another threadbare clue in his quest for vengeance.
Another search that yanked him away from Grace.
Away from their home, their life.
The emptiness of the bed tore at her heart like tiny claws.
Sharp.
Hot.
Fresh tears pricked her eyes, and she gnawed her lip to stave off the downpour.
No crying.
She fingered her engagement ring.
A tear sneaked out of her eye to roll down her cheek, painting a hot trail on her skin.
No crying, dammit.
She resisted the impulse to tap into their telepathic bond and check on her fiancé.
It was an invasion, one she understood all too well,
but how else could she know David was all right?
She had to trust their latent connection, however faint, to warn her.
If he stumbled into trouble, though, what could she do from here, over a thousand miles away?
Her heart clenched.
Losing her parents ripped her world asunder.
She could not lose David too.
Her head told her she wouldn't, yet the fear chilled her down to the essence of her.
She trudged into the bedroom, kicking off her shoes.
The lonely tear crept into her mouth, infecting her tongue with a salty tang.
She tugged the cell phone out of her jeans pocket and tossed it onto the bedside table.
Her muscles, stiff and sore, begged for a rest.
She collapsed onto the mattress on her back.
Her gaze hit the ceiling, where little acoustic balls clung to the paint,
stuck there against their will.
I know the feeling.
When they'd reached the security checkpoint at the airport, she'd longed to plead with
David to stay.
Instead, she cranked her lips into a smile, pecked a kiss on his cheek, and all but
shoved him through the gate.
Her stomach wrenched into knots recalling that moment, as he strolled into the main terminal.
When he paused to glance back, she prayed he would change his mind.
But he simply waved, then strode out of sight.
Grace rolled onto her side.
Her nose bumped into David's pillow.
She drew in a long breath.
The spiciness of his aftershave flooded her senses, along with another scent—a subtle,
masculine smell unique to David.
Indescribable.
Delicious.
Warmth suffused her, seeping into her heart and mind, smoldering in parts of her that ached for him. She inhaled another draft of his scent, her body responding as if he were there, caressing her.
He may drive her nuts at times,
Oh, the way he kissed.
Her lips tingled from the memory of it.
A chill whispered over her skin.
Every hair on her body stiffened.
Her sixth sense burst out of its slumber, clanging alarm bells in her psyche.
Someone is here.
She bolted upright and whipped her head left and right.
Nobody there.
She swung her legs off the bed and pushed up onto her feet, nabbing her .357 Magnum revolver from the bedside table.
A chill trickled down her spine.
Eyes watched.
Invisible, ethereal, but real.
She turned toward the doorway.
Nothing lurked there.
Why couldn't she pin down the source of the sensation?
Her paranormal radar was blanked out, as if overwhelmed by input.
Psychic energy crackled through her.
Behind you.
She whirled around, thrusting the gun up, clamped in both hands, and confronted—Hell.
She'd let her unease blossom into paranoia.
Nobody hunted her anymore.
Probably.
Her cell phone buzzed.
A text message had arrived.
David.
She snatched up the phone, tapping the screen until the message popped up.
As she scanned the words, a shiver rattled through her.
"Come to me," it said, "I can help you. 1325 Meroz Road."
She didn't recognize the phone number the message came from, and no name was given.
Oh sure, she'd rush right out to the address texted to her by an anonymous whackjob.
The phone buzzed again.
Another text message: "Your lip is bleeding."
Her lip?
She dabbed a finger on her mouth.
It came away wet.
Blood stained her skin.
How did the texter know she bit her lip?
Her heart pounded.
Without moving, she searched the shadows for a figure, a camera, something to explain this, though she knew she'd find nothing.
A thick curtain shielded the window.
The person sending the messages could either see through solid objects or had another means of viewing her.
Extrasensory means.
The phone tumbled from her hand, clattering on the floor.
No, she was jumping to conclusions.
An intruder must've stolen into the house.
With the revolver in hand, she sprinted out of the bedroom, down the hallway, through the kitchen, and into the living room.
Vacant.
All vacant.
She rushed back to the bedroom and dug through the closet, scoured the dresser, even dropped onto her belly to investigate the space under the bed.
No cameras.
No stealthy intruders.
Not a damn thing.
Which left her with one unthinkable thought.
Maybe she should call the police.
What for?
They couldn't help her with this kind of problem.
She jumped.
Her head smacked into the bed frame.
She clutched the gun tighter.
Where?
No, no, no, not again.
Nausea swelled in her stomach, bile rising high in her throat.
The voice did not originate in this room, or from outside.
The source was much, much closer.
Someone rammed the words into her mind.
A psychic intruder just hacked her brain.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Anna Durand is a multi-award-winning writer, a freelancelibrarian, and an audiobook addict. She specializes in sexy
romances, both paranormal and contemporary, featuring spunky heroines and hunky heroes. In her previous life as a librarian, she haunted the stacks of public libraries but never met any hot vampires hunting for magical books.
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