Twelve years after Jasper Blade joined the Texas Ranger Division, an explosion forced him to retire. He's spiraling. Ending most nights in his recliner with a bottle of Shiner and a whole lot of self-pity. When her family needed her, Emmylou Marsh gave up her career as one of the top on-air TV reporters in Los Angeles to move back to Houston. But two years later, reclaiming her career isn't as easy as she'd hoped. She needs one big story. A whopper that'll catapult her back into the national spotlight. And when she finds it, nothing will keep her from reporting the news. But someone wants this story buried and they're willing to bury Emi right along with it. This free 17,000-word short story is the start of a brand new series, Off the Grid, that will be released in 2022. It's only available until December 26, 2020, and you must be a member of the Addicted to Danger Romantic Suspense Reader group on Facebook to receive it. While it's a complete story, it will be re-released in 2022, revised and expanded into a full novel (but with the same plotline, same characters, same everything...just more). Because who doesn't want more of a hot, protective Texan calling you darlin'?