Meet Me In The Dark
A Dark Suspense
Release Date:April 15, 2015
By J. A. Huss
Synopsis
Eight years ago, Merric Case—AKA Merc, freelance assassin—was sent to rescue a sixteen year old girl from a Wyoming-based militia group on Christmas Eve. A new life, new friends, and a whole lot of new money came out of that job. But a choice had to be made that night, and the girl he should’ve saved was left behind.
Sydney Channing was collateral damage in more ways than one when the rescue she expected turned into an eight-year nightmare filled with lies, sexual servitude, and mind manipulation. Case’s last threat gave her hope that one day he’d be back—even if it was just to kill her.
And now Merc is back. But he’s not here to save Sydney. His job is to pick through her damaged psyche and find the truth using whatever means necessary. Sex, drugs, lies, and love. Those are his weapons of choice. And when Merric Case takes aim—he never misses the target.
Meet Me In The Dark is a full-length dark suspense novel due to be published on April 15, 2015.
Excerpt
“Shhh,” I tell her. She’s out of it now. Lost in her own world. I hate to take her this way, but I need her in that world. It’s the place that has the answers. And this is the only way I know to get her there. Garrett used her this way. He knew a long time ago how to make her comply with his demands.
I’m just figuring it out now. And she’s damn good at it. Her teeth scrape against my skin and make me wish for more. I want her on her knees. I want her eyes on me, open wide and filled with the desire to please. I’d fist her hair and pull her towards me, making her take me all the way to my balls.
Just imagining that is enough. I throw my head back and she chokes as I come down her throat, but she swallows just as the sobs start. I pull out and get off the table so I can get dressed.
The sobs build to full on crying. Big ugly gasping. Tears streaming down her face. Coughing. Semen she didn’t already swallow spilling out of her lips.
I have a moment of pause and wonder if I should just kill her. This is not what I thought it would be.
But I don’t. Because I need so much more from her than this. I need to get inside her. So I lean into her ear and whisper, “Hush.”
Michel’s Review
Warning: Meet Me In The Dark is a dark thriller that has extreme violence, psychological violence, explicit language,sexual violence, and captivity.
Meet Me In The Dark by J. A. Huss can be read as a stand alone novel. It is a spin off of some of the books in the Rook and Ronin series and the Dirty ,Dark, and Deadly series. The leading characters, Merc (Merric Case) and Sydney, were first introduced in Slack ( Rook and Ronin series) and the events in that book led to Meet Me In The Dark eight years later. The eight years (Dirty, Dark, and Deadly series) in between escalated the Merc’s need for revenge. His skills as an assassin and mercenary are finely honed when he makes his final deadly move. He has unfinished business with Sydney Channing, the spoiled Senator’s daughter, who’s involvement with the Company cost many lives and almost killed the one person that has become dear to Merc. Merc is going to get retribution. He is going to kill Sydney Channing.
Sydney Channing has been looking over her shoulder for eight years. In the short span of her twenty four years she has been kidnapped, abused, deserted, and been a pawn in a very deadly game. After the kidnappers deserted her six years ago she has tried desperately to live a normal life. A life that keeps her isolated from most of the world. A life as a bartender in a small backwoods town in Wyoming. She has finally moved on and is planning to get married. She is fearful to move on but also fearful to stay put. On the eve of her wedding she realizes that if she moves forward that it may be a death sentence to all those she is involved with. She flees her future husband only to fall into the arms of a very dangerous, ruthless assassin, Merc Case. This is the beginning of the end of her life.
As the story evolves the readers will get to see just how ruthless the mysterious Merc Case is. He has no limits on what he can do. He will use every means of physical torture and mental torture. He needs answers. Answers only Sydney Channing can give him to locate the final player in the deadly game he has been engaged in for the last eight years. Sydney is just a means to an end, another pawn in the game.
As captor and captive spar back and forth, shocking revelations will be made. Things are not all that they seem to be on the surface. The worst revelation will bring Merc to his knees. Sydney Channing never had a chance.
Meet Me In The Dark was a very dark read that messed with the reader’s minds throughout the entire book. The direction that J.A. Huss took these characters was a complete shock. The over all outcome was thrilling.
Once again J.A. Huss has demonstrated her superb talent. She has woven a tale that will leave the reader’s spiraling. The one good thing that J. A. Huss adds to her very dark world is romance. The romance leaves the readers with hope in a hopeless situation.
Read Meet Me In The Dark by J. A. Huss. It is thrilling!
Author Bio:
J. A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).
She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.
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