Welcome to another Snippet Saturday! Today’s snippet theme is ‘Near death Experiences’. Read my excerpt from Luck be Delanie and then hop over to the blogs below!
Long ago, Delanie made one gigantic mistake. Or committed one small felony, depending on how you look at it. Stealing a coin from a sexy stranger was just a prank to help a sorority sister get revenge. The sleeping with him part was totally unplanned. Yet she holds the memory of that one intense, passionate connection close to her heart—like the coin she still wears around her neck.
Six years later, she’s invited to a beautiful resort in the San Juan Islands to not only accept a donation for an abused women’s shelter, but to consider a job opportunity as well.
Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with her past.
Grant has always suspected Delanie stole his rare, lucky coin. He just never knew why—or why she disappeared the morning after their hot night together. After spending years looking for her, he’s lured her right where he wants her. He’ll have his answers, come hell or high water.
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“Lanie? Did you hit something?”
She nodded dumbly, unable to tear her gaze from incoming water.
The tone of Grant’s voice changed from irritation to alarm. “Is there water in the boat?”
She nodded again, her stomach churning with the realization she was in a boat that could very well sink. And she’d brought this on herself. Why had she thought it a good idea to try to drive a boat back to the resort when she had zero experience? Idiot.
“Listen to me, Lanie. I need you to grab the oars and row the boat back toward shore,” he said, his voice calm and coaxing, as if he were talking to a child. But then, her behavior pretty much warranted it.
“Oars?” She looked around, not quite sure what kind of oar would fit in such a small boat, but pretty sure there were none here. “I don’t see any oars.”
“They’re the long wooden things on the floor. I…” He trailed off. “Forgot to put them in the boat, didn’t I?”
“It kind of looks like it.”
Water swirled around her now numb feet and the boat seemed to be lower in the water.
“Of course I did.” Grant cursed, pacing back and forth on shore, his fists clenched. “This damn bad luck streak will never end.”
“Umm, can we deal with the bad luck part later?” she yelled, her voice shaking. “Because I’m starting to have Titanic visions here, and not the fun ones with Leonardo drawing me naked.”
“Okay. How fast is the water coming in?”
“I think pretty fast. I mean there’s an awful lot of water in here. It’s above my ankles.”
“Shit.”
To say the least. Panic clawed her belly as she noticed the shoreline grow farther away with each passing second.
“Grant, what should I do?”
“Okay.” Grant waded out into the water. “Lanie, I want you to jump from the boat and swim back to shore. You’ve still got your life jacket on.”
“Swim?” she croaked.
“You can swim, can’t you?”
“Yes, but—”
“The longer you wait, the farther away from the beach you’re getting. You’re almost in the current and then it’s going to be damn hard to swim,” he shouted. “I’ll meet you halfway. Jump in now, Lanie!”
She dove off the boat, the fear of God instilled in her.
The icy water ripped the air from her lungs, incapacitating her as she sank an inch lower in the water. Her hat floated off her head and got swept up into the current.
Shit. It had sure looked pretty, but this was so not the same temperature as the California coast.
“Swim, for God’s sake, swim, Lanie!” he yelled again.
With a shake of her head, she forced herself into a crawl stroke. Every inch of her body burned from the frigid water as she swam against the current back toward the beach.
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