Pieces of Eight
Tricia Leedom
(Lost Souls’ Treasure, #1)
Published by: Firefly Hill Press
Publication date: July 13th 2021
Genres: Adult, Adventure, Romance
From the author who whisked you away on a wild escapade in The Key West Escape Series comes a sexy, adventure-packed spin off. Follow Mitch Thompson and his team of misfits as they find danger, intrigue, and romance on the hunt for the legendary Lost Souls’ Treasure…
Former special ops aviator Griffin Dodge hasn’t been the same since he disobeyed a direct order and totaled a Blackhawk helicopter. After being separated from the military, he recovered from his injuries and took a job on a marine salvage crew based out of Key West. The only person he let himself get close to on the boat was a woman called “Bug” Martin, a waifish tomboy with a mean streak. They couldn’t have been more different – a former all-star golden boy from the mid-west and a French circus performer turned salvage diver – but they became best friends up until the day Griff’s high school sweetheart decided she wanted him back.
A year later, Bug still resents Griff for running off to Missouri and ghosting her and the crew. When her boss calls Griff into town for a favor, Bug wants to hit something. She settles on sucker-punching the selfish a-hole himself when he walks through the door. It doesn’t matter that he’s single again or that he’s sorry, she hates that she’s stuck flying shotgun to Martinique beside the guy who used to claim “quitting wasn’t in his vocabulary” before he abandoned their friendship and betrayed her trust.
The trip was supposed to take two days tops. Just enough time to retrieve the missing pages of a diary that could help lead the crew to The Lost Souls’ Treasure, but nothing is ever easy in Bug’s world. When the deal with the artifact collector goes south, Bug and Griff are forced to flee up the side of a volcano where the lava isn’t the only thing about to bubble over. The tension between them erupts into an unexpected night of passion that leaves them both questioning what comes next.
Griff starts to wonder if settling down in the suburbs still fits the man he’s become, while Bug isn’t sure if she’s willing to open her guarded-heart to the only man who’s ever broke it.
When a rival treasure hunter hellbent on finding the treasure first nabs Bug and another crew member, Griff realizes the future won’t matter, if he can’t bring his best friend home alive.
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EXCERPT:
“You look …” Griff’s words petered off as he stared at her. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in a dress before.”She narrowed her eyes at him in the mirror. “Are you laughing? You better not be laughing.”
“No,” he put his hands up in defense. “Absolutely not. You look … great. I’m honestly just a little shocked to see you this way.”
“What way?” She bent toward the mirror to put on the lipstick. The color matched the dress perfectly.
“You know what I mean.”
Bug straightened up and assessed herself in the mirror. Her spiky hair stood at crazy angles but the short-cropped cut gave her overall appearance a chic fashion mag model vibe. Her gaze dropped to her partially exposed breasts again. A lot of skin was showing, but she didn’t hate it. In fact, the getup made her feel sexy and feminine. Two things she hadn’t let herself feel in a very long time.
She set the lipstick aside and turned to face him. “I’ll have you know, I wore miniskirts from the time I could walk. I went through puberty in sequin-covered spandex. Just because you haven’t seen the girly side of me doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
“You don’t talk about your past. Ever. You wear coveralls, and cuss like a sailor, and go by the name Bug. How the hell would I know you have a girly side?”
Bug crossed her arms over her chest and set her jaw stubbornly. “You wouldn’t. Because that’s the way I want it.”
Author Bio:
TRICIA LEEDOM enjoys traveling to exotic destinations and having torrid love affairs with hot, dangerous men… even if it’s only in her own mind. When she’s not writing romantic adventure novels, she reads voraciously, tweets compulsively, and fangirls over a TV show based on her favorite book series. Tricia earned her BA in Creative Writing from The University of Tampa and her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. Her favorite authors include Diana Gabaldon, J.R. Ward, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Karen Robards, and Johanna Lindsey. She lives in Southwest Florida with two very spoiled dogs. Follow Tricia on Twitter and Instagram @tricialeedom
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