Trini Girl Reads: Blog Tour: A Chance Encounter by Rae Shaw @rararesources # Excerpt

It is my pleasure to present on my blog today an excerpt of "A Chance Encounter by Rae Shaw".

A Chance Encounter

Julianna Baptiste, a feisty bodyguard, finds her new job tedious, that is until her boss, the evasive Jackson Haynes, spikes her curiosity. Who is behind the vicious threats to his beautiful wife and why is he interested in two estranged siblings?

Mark works for Haynes’s vast company. He’s hiding from ruthless money launderers.

His teenage sister Ellen has an online friend whom she has never met. Ellen guards a terrible secret.

For eight years their duplicitous father has languished in prison, claiming he is innocent of murder. The evidence against him is overwhelming, so why does Mark persist with an appeal?

Keen to prove her potential as an investigator, Julianna forces Mark to confront his mistakes. The consequences will put all their lives in danger.

Here is a sneak peek!!!

She shouldn’t say anything, but Julianna can’t resist opening up to Hettie. Instead of acting like a bodyguard, she’s starting to behave like a friend – is this a good move for the both of them?

Julianna helped Hettie lock up and set the surprisingly complex alarm system. The traffic was especially horrendous, and rain lashed the windscreen. Winter crept closer every day, adding to the sense of bleakness. The gloom spilt into the car. Not being able to see Hettie's face perhaps made Julianna unusually trusting. Why not come clean with her? It wasn't as if Hettie hankered after Mark. She had had some dealings with him, was possibly party to some information about his past, things Mark wasn't happy revealing to Julianna, but might have done with his attractive client.

‘Mrs Haynes, I thought you should know, well...’ Julianna lost momentum before she had uttered a complete sentence.

‘Go on, Julianna. The road is long, as they say,’ Hettie said, encouragingly.

‘Mark Clewer and I are in a relationship.’ Julianna exhaled and waited for a reply.

‘Okay. He once was my accountant. It’s not something that bothers me. I get the feeling that my previous dealings with Mark are bothering you though.’ Hettie leaned towards the centre of the car and came into view of the mirror.

‘We’re not in love or anything.’ There was nothing romantic about what she did with Mark in her bedroom, only that it served a mutual purpose. ‘But I do care about him. Can we just be honest with each other, Mrs Haynes?’

‘Sure, fire away.’

‘I’ve being seeing Mark since the gala ball. But my question goes back to before them. To be blunt, I drove you and your husband to the clinic, remember?’

‘Ah. We spoke about Mark in the car on the way, didn’t we? Whoops.’

‘Yes. You implied Jackson was being less than kind about how he was treating Mark.’

‘I did?’ Hettie feigned surprise. She had shifted back in her seat again, hiding whatever expression was painting her face. ‘I probably over-egged it, that's all.’

‘I know about his father being in prison for murder. I assume that was what you were referring to.’

‘Yes, naturally,’ Hettie said slowly. ‘That's quite a lot to get to grips with, isn't it, on top of everything else. Poor Mark.’

On top of everything else? Hettie hadn't known about Mark's father. Julianna now knew she and Jackson had been discussing something else. Julianna had unwittingly told Hettie about Mark's father. Jackson would not be pleased. There again, Jackson had not laid down his own agenda and what was she expected to do with the sporadic amounts of information flying in her direction? Duck or charge at them?

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Author Bio –

Rae Shaw is a pen name for the author Rachel Walkley.

Rachel is based in the North West of England. She read her first grown-up detective novel at the age of eleven, which proved to be a catalyst for filling many shelves with crime books, which still occupy her home and grow in number whenever she visits a book shop.

As well as crime, Rachel likes to unplug from the real world and writes mysteries that have a touch of magic woven into family secrets.

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