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Title: In Too Deep
Author: Kimberly Kincaid
Genre: Historical
Romance
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Publisher: Kimberly Kincaid
Romance
Series: Station Seventeen
Format: Print &
Digital
Synopsis:
As Station
Seventeen’s rookie, Luke Slater knows his fire and EMS training will be both
rigorous and risky, but he never imagined having to partner up with the one
woman he wants to keep at arm’s length most of all. Quinn Copeland is as
wide-open as Luke is reserved. He has no interest in letting the sweet and sexy
paramedic rock his hard-earned control. But the need for composure becomes the
need to survive when they find themselves in the crosshairs of a brutal gang
leader on their first shift together.
Paramedic Quinn
Copeland’s station mates aren’t just her friends. They’re her family. She’d do
anything to keep them safe—including reluctantly trusting her
impossible-to-read, impossibly gorgeous new partner with the one thing she
holds close. As the passion between Luke and Quinn goes from a slow burn to a
sizzle, their steps grow more and more dangerous, both in the fire house and
out. Can they outwit a cold-blooded killer and face the fears that could cost
them everything? Or are they in too deep?
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In Too Deep Excerpt
Copyright © 2017 Kimberly Kincaid
Shae moved her
gaze over their surroundings in a methodical sweep, the eyes she’d squinted
against the glare of the late-morning sunlight going round and wide as they
landed on Quinn. “So,” she said, dropping her voice but not the ear-to-ear
smile that told Luke nothing good was going to come from their now-private
conversation. “About Quinn.”
“What
about her?” Luke stared holes in the pick-off strap he’d pre-rigged before the
drill, willing his fingers to steadily fasten the stupid thing to the main
attachment point on Shae’s harness. Rope rescue. Safe transfer. Focus.
“You
two have been spending some time together lately, huh?”
His
stomach knotted before dropping toward his hips. “Quinn has been helping with
my paramedic training,” he said, selecting his words with care. After a really
hairy call had led the house to a gruesome arson/murder scene three months ago,
Luke had been surprised to discover he had a fear of blood. But since he also
wanted to help people as a first responder, he couldn’t let that
fear—debilitating as it had been—stand in the way of him doing the job that
would keep people safe.
So
he’d done what he always did. He’d taken a step back to quietly attack the
problem, devoting himself not only to the rest of his fire and rescue training,
but to earning his certification as a paramedic at the same time. Yeah, the
workload was intense, and no, balancing both didn’t leave him much time for
luxuries outside of sleep or hot meals. He wasn’t exactly a stranger to
balls-out hard work, though. In fact, he and hard work were more like what his
seventeen-year-old sister Hayley would call “besties”. Not that Luke had any
freaking clue what that might actually entail, since he never got past the
handshake and Heisman stage with anyone.
That
whole arm’s length thing? So not an overstatement.
At
any rate, Luke had his sister and their grandmother, Momma Billie. He didn’t
need a bunch of Lifetime Original moments to distract him from his goal. He’d
attained his full qualifications as an EMT six weeks ago. Official paramedic
status would be in his reach before the year was out, provided he could
continue to keep his seemingly sudden-onset fear of blood at bay. He was well
on his way to becoming a full-fledged firefighter, like he’d always wanted.
Just as long as he could keep both his focus and his distance, he’d be fucking
stellar.
Quinn
looked up with a grin and a wave before heading back into the fire house, and
Christ, did she really have to have a set of cutely sexy dimples he
could see all the way from here?
“Helping
you with your paramedic training,” Shae echoed, her quiet murmur tumbling him
right back to the here and now of the side wall of the engine bay.
Luke
concentrated on the equipment in his hands, the clink of the carabiners and the
soft hiss of the nylon ropes as he continued with the rope transfer while he
spoke. “Sure. She’s been giving me tips and tricks to remember different
procedures, telling me the fastest ways to safely do workups. Stuff like that.”
“Ah.”
Shae waited a beat while he clipped the backup carabiner for the line transfer
into place. “You know, it wouldn’t be terrible if you liked her.”
“I
do like her.” The words shoveled out of his mouth by default. He double-checked
the carabiner. Adjusted the slack in his line. Mentally kicked himself square
in the nuts. “She’s nice.”
Shae
made a noise Momma Billie would have described as unladylike. “You know what I
mean, Slater. Don’t be a dumbass.”
And
that was the problem, right there. He was a dumbass. He didn’t just like
Quinn in a casual friends, good co-workers, she’s-helping-me-with-my-training
kind of way. Nope. He was attracted to her. From the minute he’d clapped
eyes on Quinn on his very first day as a rookie, Luke had had this reckless
desire to kiss her. To hook his fingers in that waterfall of blond waves
spilling down her back, to part her lips with his tongue and taste her until he
ran out of air.
And
he didn’t want to stop at her mouth.
About Kimberly Kincaid
Kimberly Kincaid writes
contemporary romance that splits the difference between sexy and sweet and hot
and edgy romantic suspense. When she’s not sitting cross-legged in an ancient
desk chair known as “The Pleather Bomber”, she can be found practicing obscene
amounts of yoga, whipping up anything from enchiladas to éclairs in her
kitchen, or curled up with her nose in a book. Kimberly is a USA Today
best-selling author and a 2016 and 2015 RWA RITA® finalist and 2014
Bookseller’s Best nominee who lives (and writes!) by the mantra that food is
love. Kimberly resides in Virginia with her wildly patient husband and their
three daughters.
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