Thriller/Action/Adventure
Date
Published: July 15
Publisher:
Acorn Publishing
It’s 1985. Lady Laura Lacy
of Britewood is beautiful and graceful, a
celebrity in her own right. She is cousin
to Her Majesty The Queen, and her
father is the well-respected Earl of
Britewood, honorary commander of the
Army’s elite reserve special forces unit.
Laura seemingly has it all.
She should be happy.
However, due to unspeakable
acts committed against her as a child,
she’s developed a blood lust for revenge.
Secretly trained by her
father’s regiment in the arts of war, Laura
begins to target men who
prey on the innocent and helpless. As her
skills sharpen, Laura becomes a
formidable force against
evil.
That’s when she uncovers a
transatlantic child trafficking ring led
by an elite group within British society.
With the help of commanding
officer and police inspector Billy Smythe,
her mysterious family attorney
Arthur Mosely, and an unorthodox group of
American allies, Laura sets out on
a vengeance-fueled quest to stop them. She
is determined to save as many
innocents as she
can.
It’s a mission that will
put her very life and sanity at stake,
making her question everything she’s ever
believed in. But to make
things right, Beauty must become the
Beast.
Excerpt
Chapter
1
Friday, November 22,
1985
Leeds Central Train
Station
It was late in the
afternoon, four-zero-eight to be exact. Leeds Central
Train Station was a hub of activity.
Commuters rushed on and off carriages,
shoving others in the process. Loudspeakers
chimed and calmly announced
arrival and departure times. The odour of
fumes, the chugging of
engines—a cacophony of sounds and smells
crowded the senses. The
excitement of the weekend filled the
air.
She carefully stepped off
the train onto the platform. She wasn’t
used to the cheap, shiny, black, knee-high
boots she’d chosen for the
evening. She hurried with the crowd to the
exit of the station, tugging on
her clothes as she walked. Nothing she wore
was comfortable. Her black
fishnet stockings chafed the skin behind
her knees, and her tight
black-leather miniskirt prevented her legs
from walking with her regular
stride.
The sun was about to set,
and as she stepped outside into the frigid air,
she realized that the white, torn
T-shirt—covered by the blue
Levi’s denim jacket she was wearing—was a
poor choice. Her only
saving grace from the cold was the heavy
blonde wig that she’d
purchased, like everything else she was
wearing, from everyone’s
favourite thrift shop, Oxfam. She pulled
her jacket closed and held it
together with her right hand, as she slung
the grotesque, pink worn handbag
over her left shoulder. She rolled her
shoulders forwards and shivered,
pulled the large, circular sunglasses from
her face, and stuffed them into
her bag. Hopefully no one would recognize
her; after all, she was famous for
her thick, dark eyebrows and exquisite,
sapphire eyes. She hoped that the
heavy purple eye shadow and exaggerated
pink blush would do the trick.
She rushed to the nearest
taxi and slammed the door as she slid into the
back seat. “Drop me at the Northern School
of Contemporary Dance,
love,” she said, hoping her thick Yorkshire
accent would be accepted
as legitimate.
“Not a chance, darling,”
the driver replied, shaking his head
slowly as he looked back at her. She held
out a crisp twenty-pound note. He
snatched it from her without a second
thought. “It’s your
funeral, love!” he
said.
About the Author
Domnic “DJames” McGee was born in Leeds, West
Yorkshire. A
sickly child, he was raised in a council
estate to a single mother. At
school, he was a poor student and failed
dismally.
He developed a passion for
martial arts, so in his teens, he moved to
Ireland where he trained full-time while
working in menial jobs to
survive.
A chance encounter then gave
him the opportunity to work as an Executive
Protection Agent for some of the most
influential figures in European
society.
He came to the US in 2001
to further his studies of martial arts. He
decided to stay and earned his citizenship
by serving in an Army infantry
unit and later with a reserve Military
Police unit.
He currently lives in
Huntington Beach, where he works as an Executive
Protection Agent and trains and writes as
much as he can.
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