Unshakeable Pursuit

Originally published in the Sealed with a Kiss anthology.

Doctor Geoffrey Whelan was in Japan when the tsunami hit, killing his cousin and grandmother. He has worked in medical missions for years to assuage his survivor’s guilt, and now that he’s back in Sonoma to help his family, he can’t figure out why he still feels so wounded and God feels so far away.

Then a mysterious young woman warns him that he and nurse Maylin Kinley are in mortal danger.

Maylin notices that Geoffrey is not the same arrogant doctor she met years ago in Los Angeles. Now that they are working together again in a clinic in Sonoma, she fights her attraction towards him because his confident, forceful personality reminds her too much of her abusive ex-boyfriend, who called himself a Christian.

She has been steering clear of her handsome coworker—until Asian hit men attack the clinic and they are forced to run for their lives. Now they must race to figure out how the threat is connected to a young teenager whose life they saved—before everyone they love is caught in the crossfire.

This is book #4.2 in my romantic suspense Sonoma series, although each book can be read alone.

1. Deadly Intent

2. Formula for Danger

3. Stalker in the Shadows

4. Narrow Escape

4.1. Necessary Proof (novella)

4.2 Unshakeable Pursuit (novella)

5. Treacherous Intent

6. Gone Missing (May 2015)

Excerpt:

“Are you Doctor Geoffrey Whelan?”

Geoffrey looked up from the chart of the ten-year-old boy he was perusing. The woman approaching him wore nurses’ scrubs, but they weren’t the colorful, cartoon-speckled ones of the other nurses at the Sonoma Free Children’s Clinic. Instead, they were a solid washed-out gray color that matched the pale color of the young woman’s face, with the letters KSN embroidered in red on the pocket. He didn’t remember seeing her here at the clinic before.

There was an expensive Rolex watch on her wrist. A graduation present? She was very young, barely out of nursing school. But then again, lately most of the nurses seemed extremely young to him. The events of the past few years had made him feel old.

“Can I help you?” he asked.

The young woman edged closer down the clinic hallway toward him, and he realized that her eyes were wide with … fear.

“Are you all right?” he asked. “What is it?”

“I have an urgent message for you and Nurse Kinley,” she whispered. She glanced behind her, then around him toward the other end of the hallway.

Geoffrey turned, but saw no one. He looked back at the young woman. “You mean Maylin Kinley?”

She nodded.

Geoffrey knew who Maylin was—in fact, he’d first met her years ago when he was doing his residency at the Merlyn Memorial Hospital down in Los Angeles.

He’d been a different man back then.

But Maylin was the same as he remembered her, still beautiful, still wary of him. She had good reason to be.

“What kind of message? Are you in trouble? I can help.”

The young woman shook her head with a kind of despair in her tightly closed eyes. “It’s you and Nurse Kinley. You have to disappear.”

“What?”

The girl gripped his arm with slender fingers, strong and faintly trembling. Her brown eyes pierced him. “You’re both in danger. You have to run away. It’s the only way you’ll escape from them.”

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"Tang creates suspense that will hold your attention.”
—4.5 stars from RT Book Reviews for Stalker in the Shadows

“Tang creates suspense that is palpable from page one and maintained throughout, and her characters are engaging and realistic.”
—4.5 stars from RT Book Reviews for Narrow Escape

"Tang maintains her usual blend of wit, suspense, and romance as she launches a new series.”
—Booklist for Protection for Hire

“Protection for Hire is suspenseful, and it also makes good use of author Camy Tang’s sense of humor, clever dialogue, and insight into relationships. Readers should find this story thoroughly entertaining.”
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