Stolen: A Novel of Romantic Suspense [Paperback]

Shiloh Walkeris the bestselling author ofIf You Hear Her, If You See Her, If You Know Her, Chains, Fragile,andThe Missing. She loves reading and writing anything fantasy and nearly every kind of romance. Once upon a time she worked as a nurse, but now she writes full-time and lives with her family in the Midwest.9780345531902|excerpt

Walker / STOLEN

chapter one

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I had another dream.

I’m in the closet. Again, hiding like always. I hear a baby.

And he is here. I can hear him shouting. Yelling. Swearing. He’s angry . . . but he’s always angry.

I hear somebody giggling this time—this is new . . . I don’t remember this. She’s giggling, and I hear her talking about a princess.

I’m hungry.

I’m cold.

I wait until it’s quiet, because I need to get some food. I think the baby is hungry, too.

Then there are sirens. And I think there’s blood. I hear the baby again, but these screams are different. . . .

Leaning back away from the computer, Shay Morgan closed her eyes and sighed. The dream was already fading away, the threads of it escaping her grasp even as she tried to hold on.

Even as she tried to put the terror into words. The pain.

Moments passed and the dream lost some of that vivid, powerful punch. But still, she was shaken. Sickness gripped her and in the back of her mind, she could hear a pitiful, broken scream.

Shifting her attention to the screen, she started to read back over what she’d written.

“You’re going to hold down the fort, right?”

The man bent over the desk didn’t look up at first.

Lorna Winter sighed and leaned her shoulder against the doorjamb.

“Elliot!”

Her brother looked up, eyes a little clouded. Lack of sleep, lack of caffeine, or just general crankiness could accounlC4