Today I’m featuring another excerpt from the romantic suspense Kindle box set set Risky Encounters, available for 99 cents on Kindle and for free through Kindle Unlimited. Below is an excerpt from Rx Missing, by Rebecca York.
In the middle of the night, Grant Marshall sneaks into the funeral home where his brother’s body lies in a closed coffin. Here’s there to say good-bye.
“I’ve missed you, Mackie. Sorry you didn’t get home for Christmas this year. And that we didn’t get a chance to do some fishing in the fall.” He dragged in a breath and went on, struggling to hold his voice steady.
“Remember the fun times we had together? On the football team. At Ocean City after our senior year. And remember that fight with the Frostburg guys in back of the bowling alley where we got busted by the cops, and Dad had to bail us out. He was mad as hell, and we had to chop wood for the entire winter to make up for that one.”
He knew he was stalling because he didn’t want to look inside the coffin. Yet he had to. Was that a little bit of the old psychic ability coming back to him? He scoffed at the rationalization and kept talking.
“I brought you some stuff that you might like to have. That championship football that you kept in your room. Your high school ring. And a Snickers bar. Your favorite.”
Grant rummaged in the knapsack again for a Phillips screwdriver, then went to work on the screws that held the lid down.
He carefully set them on the velvet-topped table before closing his eyes for a moment and saying a prayer for strength.
Steeling himself, he lifted the lid with a jerk and looked down into the coffin. A gasp escaped his lips as he struggled to understand the horror of what he was seeing.
Mack’s body was not in the coffin.
Not Mack or anybody else.
Nestled in the silk padding was a featureless man-sized prosthetic thing in place of his brother’s remains. Like a department store dummy, only it must have been a lot heavier, since it had to make up the mass of a physically fit, full-grown man.
Emotions smashed through Grant in quick succession like interior shotgun blasts as he struggled to come to grips with the implications.
Shock. Then relief. Then a hundred questions. Was his brother alive—and somewhere else? And
if so, where?
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Stacy Juba has written sweet and sassy chick lit novels, mysteries about determined women sleuths, and entertaining books for young adults and children. Her books include the Storybook Valley chick lit series and the Hockey Rivals young adult sports novels.
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