Judy Christenberry - Honeymoon Hunt

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Finding a Family #1762

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Honeymoon Hunt #1803

Silhouette Books

The Coltons

The Doctor Delivers

A Colton Family Christmas

“The Diplomat’s Daughter”

Lone Star Country Club

The Last Bachelor

has been writing romances for over fifteen years because she loves happy endings as much as her readers do. She’s a bestselling author for Harlequin American Romance, but she has a long love of traditional romances and is delighted to tell a story that brings those elements to the reader. A former high school French teacher, Judy devotes her time to writing. She hopes readers have as much fun reading her stories as she does writing them. She spends her spare time reading, watching her favorite sports teams and keeping track of her two adult daughters.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Epilogue

Julia Chance drove slowly down the block in her rental car, anxiously looking from one side of the street to the other, growing more and more uneasy as she went.

She was looking for the Hotel Luna. She was sure she’d followed directions, but she couldn’t imagine her mother being in this neighborhood.

Old, run-down buildings crowded each other in this area of Dallas. Minimarts, aglow with their bright interior lights, battled with the dark bars that found residence on at least every other street. Men loitered in dark alleys between the buildings, prompting her to step on the gas and keep moving.

There on the right, a couple hundred feet up, a small sign drew her attention. Hotel L*na. Despite the sign’s missing letter, Julia knew that had to be it. She drove up to the hotel and pulled to the curb, but hesitated. The hotel looked anything but safe. Surely her mother wouldn’t—

From inside the Hotel Luna a man came running, startling her. He was big, muscular, wearing a white knit shirt from what she could see in the dim street-light. Maybe he was running because he was in a hurry, or maybe he—

Just then, the passenger door was opened, cutting off her thought, and the man she’d glimpsed earlier jumped into her car.

“Step on it, lady!” he ordered with a growl.

Julia’s eyes widened in surprise. Almost as a reflex, she resisted. “I’ll do no such thing! Get out of my car or I’ll call the police!”

She heard a sound similar to a loud pop right before her windshield split. As it happened, the man beside her grabbed Julia and yanked her down.

“What’s going on? Who’s shooting at you?”

“I accidentally interrupted a drug deal,” the man growled.

It took a minute for her to put things together. By that time, another bullet had hit her windshield. Then pain from her right foot shot through her as the man did as he’d asked her to do.

He stepped on the gas pedal, pushing it to the floorboard, ignoring the fact that her foot was under his.

He also grabbed the wheel, rising up just enough to see over the hood.

Julia felt like a coward, but she couldn’t bring herself to sit up and face any more bullets. Who was shooting? It could be the police, for all she knew. Was the man in her car the target? This guy could be a criminal escaping.

Well, he’d carjacked the wrong woman! She straightened and tried to wrest the steering wheel from his grasp. “Take your hands off. I’m the driver!”

To her surprise, he released the wheel. “Then drive. Get on the freeway. The entrance is right here.”

“What if I don’t want to get on the freeway?”

“Then we’ll both be killed! You don’t have much choice.”

The sound of a car behind them had her looking in the rearview mirror, but she couldn’t see much.

“They’re after us!” Again he slammed his foot on hers to increase their speed.

“I’m going to call the police if you don’t get out right now!”