Excerpt Reveal for Cold Blooded by Toni Anderson!

COLD BLOODED by Toni Anderson releases June 12th – but if you can’t wait, be sure to check out an excerpt below and then preorder your copy today!

Romantic suspense lovers – this is the series for you!

Title: Cold Blooded    

Series: Cold Justice #10

Author: Toni Anderson 

Genre: Romantic Suspense 

Release Date: June 12, 2018

Searching for the truth…

Disgraced investigative journalist Pip West is devastated when she discovers her best friend’s body face-down in a tranquil lake. When cops and federal agents determine that her friend overdosed then drowned, Pip knows they’re mistaken and intends to prove it.

Special Agent Hunt Kincaid doesn’t trust journalists and has no patience for Pip’s delusions, especially since her meddling could reveal why the FBI is interested in her friend’s last days. The dead scientist worked at the cutting edge of vaccine research and might have a connection to a new, weaponized, vaccine-resistant anthrax strain that just hit the black market.

…just turned deadly.

Pip is thrown off her game by grief and her unexpected attraction to the handsome federal agent. Hunt battles the same unwelcome pull, determined to resist the heat that threatens to consume them both. But the more Pip digs, the closer she gets to both the sexy FBI agent, and to a bioweapons terrorist who’s more than capable of cold-bloodedly sacrificing anyone who gets in his way.

Hunt opened his wallet and pulled out enough bills to cover both meals. She dug into her pocket for her wallet. I’ve got this, he said. She opened her mouth to argue. 

I’ve got this, Pip. Put your money away. She let him because it wasn’t worth fighting over. I don’t like charity. You can pay next time. It was a throwaway comment, a reflex on his part. 

Will there be a next time? Hope, heat and vulnerability were naked in her voice, though she tried to disguise them. But she needed to know what this was between them. 

He looked at her and something changed in his eyes, heated and softened. What do you think? He took her hand and tugged her gently out of her seat and toward the door. Once on the sidewalk he turned to face her and brushed her hair to one side. 

Then he lowered his lips to hers and kissed her again. A jolt of heat shot along her nerves. Tangy and sizzling. Alive. She held onto his forearms as he tilted her chin and deepened the kiss. 

His tongue touched hers and she moaned and felt him smile against her lips. She tangled her tongue with his. He tasted like beer and salt and hot alpha male. 

Her fingers traced the hard planes of his chest, the warm cotton of his t-shirt. The scent of his leather jacket mixed with the musky scent of his skin made her knees go a little weak.  

He pulled back, still cupping her face. Before she could think or speak he kissed her again and a tremor of longing ran through her. She curled her fingers into his t-shirt and pulled him tighter against her. 

When they broke away they were both breathing hard. Come on. He took her hand and strode along the sidewalk, around the corner to their vehicles.  

He opened her door, boosting her into the seat, his hands lingering on her hips in a way that suggested he didn’t want to let go. Come home with me, he said gruffly.  

A wave of desire curled inside, tumbling her thoughts into a mass of confusion. She wanted him, but she’d always been lousy at casual sex.  

But goddamn it, she’d almost died today and this was something she’d been thinking about since he’d come to her room that morning. And that was before he’d thrown himself over her to save her from flying bullets. 

They were only alive thanks to a fickle dose of good luck. Live a little. Cindy’s voice in her head dared her. The dead woman was haunting her now. His eyes were dark with night shadows. I want to show you something. 

She snorted. He grinned and took her hand, his fingers kneading the tension out of her joints. That too, but if you’re not interested or you change your mind at any point, I will make sure you get home safely. 

There is something else I’d like to show you. Something important. She wasn’t one to trust easily, but what did she have to lose? This would be a way to forget the sadness from the last few days. 

Unlike drugs or alcohol, sex with Hunt Kincaid wouldn’t destroy her mind or body, though it might damage her heart. But if she knew it was temporary going in, she could protect her heart. He’d be a distraction. 

Not an addiction. She wanted this, she realized. She wanted him. Okay. 

 ©Toni Anderson 2018

New York Times and USA Today international bestselling author, Toni Anderson, writes dark, gritty Romantic Suspense novels that have hit #1 in Barnes & Noble’s Nook store, the Top 10 in Amazon and Kobo stores, and the Top 50 in iBooks. Her novels have won many awards. 

A former Marine Biologist from Britain, she inexplicably ended up in the geographical center of North America, about as far from the ocean as it is possible to get. She now lives in the Canadian prairies with her Irish husband and two children and spends most of her time complaining about the weather.

Toni has no explanation for her oft-times dark imagination, and only hopes the romance makes up for it. She’s addicted to reading, dogs, tea, and chocolate.

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