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Title: The Protector:
Author: HelenKay Dimon
Genre Romantic Suspense
About The Protector:
Salvation, Pennsylvania. The commune located in the small town was advertised as a modern Utopia: a
place to live, share, and learn with other like-minded young people. Cate Pendleton’s sister was one of
them. Now she’s dead—and Cate won’t rest until she finds out who killed her. Stonewalled at every
turn, she approaches a DC Fixer for help and ends up with Damon Knox, a mysterious man with a
secretive past. But Cate soon discovers that she not only needs Damon, she wants him, which isn’t
good—for the attraction brewing between them will only lead to complications that can turn into
danger . . .
Damon has tried to erase the hellish memories and the evil that happened in Salvation ever since he left
a long time ago. Still, he can’t turn his back on Cate. As Damon works with Cate to uncover her sister’s
killer, he finds himself drawn to her more and more. But how will she feel about him when she learns
about his connection to the place?
Joining forces to uncover the truth, they must stay one step ahead of a cunning killer who’s bent on not
being exposed.
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Exclusive Excerpt:
Cate Pendleton dumped her grocery bags on the kitchen counter and glanced around the living room
area of her small one-bedroom condo. Flattened pillows. Magazines spread across the coffee table. A
blanket in a ball on the floor from where it slipped off her last night while she watched television. The
remote stuffed between cushions.
Everything was exactly where she left it when she took off on her store run an hour ago. But something
struck her as off. She felt it rather than saw it. A violation of her scared space. A lingering menace. The
sensation of unknown hands skimming over her things. A shiver skated through her at the thought.
With her keys sticking between her fingers like a weapon, she walked around the condo, peeking in the
closet and looking inside the bedroom. The journey ended back here she started. She approached the
couch nice and slow. She listened for footsteps, but the only sound came from the hiss of her clunky,
usually-malfunctioning icemaker.
She leaned toward the cushions, just a bit, and sniffed. There it was. Aftershave. Faint, but present.
Since a man hadn’t been in the condo for weeks the smell was out of place. And this was not the first
time this had happened. She came home two days ago to the same scent. A mix of musk and orange.
The last time it happened in the evening. This time in the morning.
On that first day, she found her patio door unlocked. Living in a city, she didn’t take her personal safety
for granted. Being two floors up, tucked behind rows of government buildings and a few blocks back
from the National Air and Space Museum in downtown Washington, D.C., she kept her guard up. The
neighborhood served as home to many congressional staffers. Traffic, both human and the car variety,
moved in a steady beat. But she knew better than to assume everything was fine. She locked her doors.
All of them and all the time, but someone got in.
A punch of awareness moved though her as she brushed her fingertips over the arm of the chair. The
idea of someone snooping through her stuff, standing in her space, made her gag. Last time nothing
was stolen, so she skipped calling the police with that fear. Wrote the whole thing off as faulty memory.
She knew something strange had happened, but she blocked it and pretended otherwise. But this was
different. From the first whiff of that cologne, the trembling started deep down in her stomach, spun up
to her head and would not stop.
She forced her mind to focus. Someone kept getting in without leave much of a trail. They didn’t stick
around, and for that she was grateful. Nothing stolen. Not obviously, anyway.
Her sister. That’s what this had to be about. Cate thought back to the last six weeks and all the ground
she’d covered. She poked around, asked uncomfortable questions and clearly upset someone. She got
too close, which was exactly her plan. Maybe she uncovered some piece of information she hadn’t
realized yet. But she would.
If someone broke in thinking they’d figure out her strategy or grab every lead she’d collected, they
miscalculated. No way would she make it that easy for anyone to destroy her work or derail her.
After the first time this happened, she called the police but that led nowhere. A second call likely would
end the same way. They would ignore her, write her off as the crazy one with the dead
sister. Add to that her complaint wouldn’t pinpoint any clear evidence. This was about a
sense of a presence, of being spooked, and she would become the new lunchtime story for
the officers.
But she knew. He had been there. He or she. The person knew how to get in and was playing with her.
The next time she might come home too soon.
Despite her worries and the downsides, she picked up the phone and dialed the one person who might
be able to help her, the mysterious D.C. fixer. The guy no one ever saw who went by one name – Wren.
Catch Up On the Series!
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About HelenKay Dimon:
HelenKay Dimon spent the years before becoming a romance author as a...divorce attorney. Not the
usual transition, she knows. Good news is she now writes full time and is much happier. She has sold
over forty novels and novellas to numerous publishers, including HarperCollins, Kensington, Harlequin,
Penguin Random House, Riptide and Carina Press. Her nationally bestselling and award-winning books
have been showcased in numerous venues and her books have twice been named "Red-Hot Reads" and
excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine. She is on the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of
America and teaches fiction writing at UC San Diego and MiraCosta College. You can learn more at her
website: www.HelenKaydimon.com
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