TRUST MY BODYGUARD (Pine Peaks #1) by Summer Hunter | Cover & Excerpt Reveal
January 23, 2025
TRUST MY BODYGUARD
Pine Peaks #1
by Summer Hunter
Cover & Excerpt Reveal
Release Date: February 6, 2025
Cover Design: Vranjković Nemanja
Genre: Romantic Suspense Standalone
Trope: Enemies to lovers, small town, bodyguard, protector, family trauma
Synopsis
In the white winter, I find my snow angel.
I’m ex-military turned security firm owner. Strict and focused as they come.
Then I meet my first client—Ivy Ross.
The second our eyes lock, I know she’s going to ruin me.
Tempestuous as a geyser, she’s contradicting everything I say, running her mouth everywhere.
I’m used to rule-followers. And her breaking mine incites me.
In more ways than one.
So I back her up against a wall and fix her little attitude problem.
I’m trying to teach her a lesson, but I learn one myself—Ivy’s taken hold of me.
But I’m not the only one obsessed.
Her stalker wields a gun he’s letting off.
I’d stop at nothing to ensure her safety. My heart pulses for her. Which shouldn’t be happening.
She’s just a client.
She’s not mine to keep. Only to keep safe.
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Excerpt
I find him. The man who took Ivy. He has a gun in his hand, finger on the trigger, waving the goddamned thing like a fool. He is a fool. He doesn't realize the wrath he has earned by taking Ivy. My hands close into fists, and my body grows tight with the need to pummel into something. I take a deep breath and calm myself for the moment. I'll get the chance soon enough.
Moving further, I find who I'm looking for. Ivy. My heart thumps in my chest at the sight of her. She's strapped to the chair, arms pressed to her sides. He did a thorough job keeping her locked in. But her mouth is free, and she's speaking. Even leaning forward to yell at him.
My breath stutters in my chest as the gun is pressed to her forehead. But she doesn't back down. She stares past the barrel at him, daring him.
Stubborn, stubborn woman.
I can't waste a second more. She'd push him to hurt her, and then I'd have to kill him.
I round the property and move as stealthily as I can. My heartbeat sounds louder than my footfalls, so that must mean I am quiet enough. I come up close to the cabin, and the mix of their arguing voices reaches me. Staying low, I inch my way up to the front.
My fist tightens around the stick I picked up. I lift it and slam it against the side of the cabin. The sounds inside cut off.
"What is that?" the man says.
"How should I know? I'm in here. Not out there."
"Shut up," he says to her.
*Don't tell her to shut up*. Only I get to do so.
I hit the wall again.
"You should check on whatever is out there," Ivy says. "Maybe it's a bear."
"Maybe I'll feed you to it."
But I hear footsteps. He's coming. I hunker down by the door and wait.
It creaks open, and a head pokes out. Too bad he's looking up ahead and not at the threat below. Good for me because I seize the element of surprise.
I stand, and as his eyes widen, I smack the stick on the side of his head. It shatters, the splinters raining everywhere. Ivy yells inside.
Ivy.
I grab him by the collar and throw him down the steps. Then I shut the door behind me.
"Why did you take her?" I take the steps quickly and kick my feet in his jaw before he can recover. "Why?!"
The man falls back against the snow, bringing his hands to his bleeding nose. His eyes blink open and fall on his gun. As if only realizing what he has, he points it at me, crawling away on his ass like a pathetic loser.
"Who the fuck are you?" Blood dribbles down his jaw as he speaks.
"I'm the one who's going to kill you for hurting the woman I love."
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About the Author
Summer currently lives in Hawaii, the melting pot.
Eating a cheeseburger today and fried noodle tomorrow.
Even welcoming Santa on a surfboard in flip-flops is something you can't experience outside of Hawaii.
Its multicultural lifestyle inspires her to come up with stories for her next book.
She enjoys writing "Love, Spice, and Suspense".
Always HEA!
Her imagination never stops when Coconut trees sway and the ocean calls her.
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