Sometimes, good deeds don’t go unpunished.
The Ghost of a Chance, a Krewe of Hunters novella from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham & 1001 Dark Nights is now live!
Having run into the bank to take out cash for her son’s school fair, Angela Hawkins Crow is surprised to find herself in the middle of a hostage situation. The hostage-taker is none other than Billy Mendelson, a young man suffering after a violent armed robbery attack at his home.
Angela read about the crime but is mystified by his behavior, even as he hustles her into a vault with several others. Billy was a stellar student and so much more before the events of that fateful day. How can he subject others to such violence?
Thankfully, Angela realizes someone else in the bank might be able to help her bring it all to an end—without any injuries. It’s a ghost of a chance, but one she must cling to if she wishes to save the hostages and the young man so damaged by what has befallen him.
Only a ghost of a chance…
But one she is grateful to have. And one that just might work.
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Classes that taught her when self-defense was an option, the best way to speak during negotiations, and how to deal with someone who was so badly on the edge that every single care had to be taken to keep oneself or a roomful of people from being killed.
Of course, she could only pray that she was putting the pieces together properly.
“Please,” she repeated. “We will all do every single thing you tell us to do.”
He whispered something, but she barely heard him.
“I’m sorry.”
He moved closer to her as if his words were meant only for her.
“My mother did that—everything those bastards said. And they killed her and my dad anyway.”
“But that’s them, Billy. Not you,” she told him. Her words were almost a whisper now. This had come to something that was between the two of them.
“You know who I am.”
“And my heart bleeds for you. Billy, I know you probably won’t believe this, but I can help you. I can employ every resource in the world to trap the monsters who hurt your parents,” she told him. “Really—”
“The cops were all over it.”
“Not to brag, but I’m almost a genius with the Internet. I can find out what others can’t. And I have friends who are just as good.”
“No, no, no. I’ll be gone to the moon—well, South America, at least. Somewhere far, far, away. And I’ll start over completely. Or I’ll be dead,” he told her.
“Then we’ll get everyone into the vault now, and when you’re gone, I’ll still try to find justice for your parents,” she vowed.
He looked at her for a long moment, and she thought maybe he believed her. Right now, there was only one objective: to keep these people alive.
And she would do anything in the world to make that happen, praying that, somehow, she might keep herself alive, as well. There might be one problem, though. Jackson and Corby knew where she was. She had simply run to the bank to pull out some cash for Corby’s class’s fundraiser for the victims of the latest storm that had wiped out hundreds of homes. They’d planned on buying pastries created by all the kids’ different parents and turning their purchases into an impromptu party for those in the Krewe who were in the area at the moment.
Billy smiled suddenly. “You’d best all behave,” he told her. “Because I’m not alone. Say hi, Kenneth.”
At the front of the bank, one of the men seated on the floor waved a hand in the air and rose, reaching beneath his jacket as he did.
He, too, had a gun. From her distance, Angela couldn’t tell what type of handgun it might be.
But regardless, it carried bullets and death.
Her family knew she was here. And while she had incredible faith in Jackson, she prayed he was able to control the situation, and that no one barged in, guns blazing.
Because that would surely cause a bloodbath.
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