Excerpt from Justice for All Time

Brendan didn’t stop to check his aim, he trusted it, and immediately turned the gun towards the woman, once again shocked because she had done the same.

It couldn’t have been more than half a minute that they stood like that, but the image of her was seared into his mind.

Dark hair whipping around her small pale face, eyes fixed and confident, stance solid and challenging. And that gun was steady as the grave. She was a magnificent sight.

She was a beauty, and she was dangerous, that registered immediately in Brendan’s mind.

When she lowered her weapon and raised her hand, he added ‘not stupid’ to her list of qualities. He upgraded her intelligence the next day as she skillfully evaded his questions at the accident site, and when she correctly poked holes in his sharp-shooter theory with her shell-casings question, he took the liberty of putting her in the dangerously-intelligent category.

Musing out loud now, he murmured, “But what are you hiding from me?”

- Excerpt from Justice for All Time