Sample 60 Saturday: MUTE WITNESS

Every Saturday, until I run out of books--or decide to go to page 70--I will present an excerpt, page 60, from one of my books. No matter what it says--funny, filthy, scary, dumb, or tantalizing--you'll get it here.

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Let's continue the chronological tour with my child abduction thriller and love story, Mute Witness.

Synopsis
Sean and Austin's perfect world shatters when Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason, vanishes. When Jason turns up days later abused and unable to speak, small town fingers point to the boy's gay dad as the culprit. Meanwhile, the real villain is close by, intent on ensuring the boy's muteness is permanent.

Page 60:
How did they know he was in here? Had they seen him at a window? Junior wanted to cry. He didn’t know how to deal with these people. Why couldn’t they just leave him alone?

“Mr. Parsons, we’ll give you five seconds.”

Junior began to tremble under the bed, tremble harder as he heard something slamming into his only door. He shrieked when the lock broke free from the doorframe and the door crashed inward. He tried to flatten himself even more against the wall, watching the two men move into his home.

This wasn’t fair! It wasn’t fair. Junior was whimpering as he watched the black shoes and bottoms of navy blue uniform pants moving through his little house.

And then the quilt came up suddenly and a dark face with a mustache was peering at him, here in the shadows and the dust.

“Here he is, Pete.” The man’s brown eyes locked with Junior’s. “Come on out of there, now, you son of a bitch.”

And Junior scooted out, uncertain what fate awaited him outside the protection of his bed.

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