âThese guys play rough, and they play for keeps,â the district attorney said.
âYou think I donât know that?â Jake knew he was beginning to sound aggravated. âIâve been involved in this for months. Iâve seen what they can do.â His brother Adam was still recovering from being shot months ago.
âI have, too.â Rose sounded grim. âI just donât want to see any more of this close to home. Donât forget youâve got one of my favorite cousins working for you, mister. I want to keep her in one piece.â
âNo need to worry on that score. I wouldnât let anybody touch Holly. If I lost her, the office would fall apart.â
FAITH ON THE LINE:
Two powerful families wage war on evilâ¦and find love.
ADAMâS PROMISEâ
Gail Gaymer Martin
FINDING AMYâ
Carol Steward
GABRIELâS DISCOVERYâ
Felicia Mason
REDEEMING TRAVISâ
Kate Welsh
PETERâS RETURNâ
Cynthia Cooke
PROTECTING HOLLYâ
Lynn Bulock
has been writing since fourth grade and published in various fields for over twenty years. Her first romantic novel came out in 1989. Her Steeple Hill Café mystery LOVE THE SINNER is a May 2005 release. She lives near Los Angeles, California, with her husband and sons.
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands
of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.
âPsalms 140:4
Jake MontgomeryâSomeone was out to make sure the FBI agent never finished decoding Alistair Barclayâs secret files.
Holly VanceâSheâd loved her boss in silence for years, but would the traumatic past sheâd buried keep them apart?
Alistair BarclayâThe former hotel tycoon was going down for numerous crimes. Would Jake be able to connect him with Baltasar Escalante and the Diablo crime syndicate?
Maxwell VanceâThe former CIA agent has a vested interest in the case: keeping his three sons out of the line of fire.
Peter VanceâHe was one of the last ones to see Escalante aliveâ¦and one of the many on hand to testify against Barclay.
Dear Reader,
I hope you enjoyed Holly and Jakeâs story. It was quite an experience to work with so many fine authors in this series of books about the Vance and Montgomery families and how they used their faith to fight evil. I suppose we all do that in a lesser way each day, without considering it much. So many days in the past six months have started out with knowing that my âsistersâ in this project were encouraging me, or holding me up in a prayer. Iâd like to thank all of them, Gail, Carol, Felicia, Kate and Cynthia, for all that theyâve brought into my life.
In addition, a book like this with multiple areas of research canât be completed without a great deal of help from folks in a variety of professions. Iâd especially like to thank Nathan Lee and Karen Nicastro for their excellent help in guiding me through the legal system. Anything I got right was due to their expertise, and the errors are all mine.
I love hearing from my readers. You can contact me at: P.O. Box 1167, Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 or find me at www.lynnbulock.com.
Blessings,
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
âYou are so lucky.â Sara Phelps straightened a stack of papers fresh from the copier. âYou know that everybody else in the Colorado Springs office wants your job, donât you?â
Holly Vance waved a hand in her friendâs direction. She couldnât imagine what Sara said being true. âThat has to be an exaggeration, Sara. For one thing, âeverybodyâ in this office would only mean about three other people. And why would they want my job, anyway? I do the same things the rest of the assistants here do.â
When Holly told friends she worked for the FBI, they all thought her job must be terribly fascinating. She had to burst their bubble fairly frequently on that little fantasy. For the most part, working for the resident agency of the FBI in Colorado Springs was a lot like working for any other government office. The idea of the work might sound interesting to an outsider, but the day-to-day routine was just that most of the timeâ¦routine.
Holly knew that she went to work in a regular office building like most of the population. She spent hours on the computer and a lot of time just like this, queuing up for one of the printers or copiers in the suite of offices, processing a document for her boss, Jake Montgomery. The khakis and sweater she wore on her slender frame werenât any different from the work outfits of any of her friends. Television, she decided, had overplayed the image of working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Of course there was the fact that Jake could easily have played one of those TV FBI agents. His dark-blond good looks would make him a casting directorâs dream. But Holly knew that personally, sheâd never make the cut on a television casting call, and neither would most of the people working in the Colorado Springs office.