Hi, readers! I’ve been sharing installments from the opening chapter of my first (and recently re-issued) book, The Sheriff’s Son.  To start at the beginning, here’s installment #1.

And here’s your Teaser Tuesday clip for today:

Sarah kept a reassuring arm around her son but shifted him to her side so they could face the enemy together.

Normally, she had a healthy respect for the law.  But this was Tanner Jones, and that made all the difference.  “What happened, Kevin?”

Tanner whipped a leather-covered notebook out of his pocket.  As he started toward them, her son trembled against her.

“Nothing happened, Mom!”

Tanner snorted.  “You call defacing a sheriff’s car nothing?”

“Oh, Kevin.  You didn’t.”

The bell over the front door rang again, and Kevin’s friend Billy poked his head into the room.  “Hey, Kev, what happened to ya?  The bus is late and Mom told Gary he had to drive us to school and he’s yelling to hurry up.”

Kevin slipped from her encircling arm and looked at her with pleading eyes.

She nodded.  “You go to school, and I’ll speak with Deputy Jones.  Be prepared, though.  We’ll talk about this when you get home.”

“Wait a minute—” Tanner began.

Her son bolted, sneakers pounding across the wooden floor, down a side aisle and through the front door, which he slammed shut behind him.

The bell jangled so hard, she thought it might fly off and break a window.

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The Sheriff’s Son was just re-released yesterday in larger print and a brand-new e-book edition, available exclusively at Harlequin.

If you’re interested in the original version of the book, you can still find it at your favorite e-tailers, including Amazon.

And if you’d like a chance to win a copy of the original print version or another of my backlist books, check yesterday’s blog post.

Happy reading!

All my best,

Barbara