Written by Erica Rose Jackson My latest book is available and I've already held my live reading online (you can check out the video on my excerpts page). I'd like to share chapter one of my latest work with you guys! Chapter 1 A Book Shop in Seattle Jinx Hunter found herself sitting in a cafe, alone, watching her target purchase his third cup of coffee for the day.
The FBI sent her here to follow Apollo Banks, a suspected terrorist, who was supposedly planning a large-scale attack on the U.S. So far, Jinx hadn’t seen anything to indicate Apollo was mixed up with any kind of terrorist agency but she had her orders and she was always one to follow her orders. She’d been sent to Seattle alone because the threat level wasn’t high enough to warrant an entire team. After a few days of observation, she agreed with the agency’s position on this target because he was only interested in coffee and the library so far. Jinx was a Special Agent by this point in her career which meant she was expected to take on cases that held a certain level of serious potential danger. However, she’d been following Apollo Banks for the past three days and he hadn’t done anything suspicious. In fact, he hadn’t even met with another soul. Apollo was the epitome of a loner and that made it hard for her to stay focused on him, as her target, because she was finding herself bored at each turn. Jinx watched as Apollo picked up his coffee and left the shop. She stood and, stealthily, followed him to his next destination. She watched as he waltzed into a mom and pop bookstore making sure to enter after him. The store was quaint and definitely one that would house the older titles a terrorist might reference for a potential attack. Apollo made his way to the gardening section of the store and Jinx was about to follow him when a small section of first edition novels caught her eye. Jinx couldn’t believe she stopped following her target but he hadn’t done anything suspicious, allowing her to feel confident in her choice to not stick as closely to him. She zeroed in on a first edition of H. Rider Haggard’s The Treasure of the Lake. She’d never seen that book in print but only an eBook. Jinx couldn’t help herself as she picked it up and sat down at a nearby table and began to read. She’d never read this novel from beginning to end and she found herself enthralled in the story but was careful to keep one eye trained on Apollo and his every movement. Two hours after he’d walked in to the bookstore, he was checking out with an armful of books. Jinx, regretfully, closed her book and stood to follow him to his next location. She had no idea when she put down that book what kind of consequences would follow…
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
January 2023
|