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The Crash by Skye Warren & Amelia Wilde
Release Date: July 11th 2022
Pages: 61
Series: Deserted Island #0.5
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense
Carter Morelli works alone, but his orders are clear. Pilot the small aircraft carrying the renowned geologist to a remote island. Except the plane malfunctions at a crucial moment.
June Porter wants to stay on solid land. She doesn’t want to fly, but it’s the only way to get to the dig site. Then her worst fears come true.
A heavy storm. A swift fall from the sky. And a heart stopping crash.
An emergency landing leaves them stranded.
A shadow moves through the trees. They aren’t alone in the jungle.
{EXCERPT}
The engine stutters. It’s not precisely wrong, but it’s not precisely right.
“Carter? What’s happening?”
“Nothing.”
It’s not unprecedented. Engines make noise. They’re mechanical. It happens. I check the gauges. Nothing. It’s a small plane, but top-of-the-line. Well-maintained. I checked it over, tip to tail, when I arrived at Heathrow. Nothing was out of order then.
Nothing should be broken now.
Another stutter. This one’s bigger. Fuck.
The fuel gauge swings down toward empty, ticking by line after line.
My entire spine chills. That’s a malfunction. That’s a fucking problem. We’re dumping fuel on a delay, out over the ocean, almost like…
Someone planned for this to happen.
Fuck. Is that what my handler was calling about? How would she know something is wrong on the plane, thousands of miles away? I reach for the landing gear controls.
They try to engage. They fail. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
What’s happening is that the landing gear are stuck halfway open.
Worse, I don’t trust the navigation equipment.
The paper map in the panel above my head resists coming out, but I force it. Open it. Check my bearings one last time. Trust them one last time.
Angle the plane in a slightly different direction.
Off the flight plan, but toward the only land within range on the map.
What the hell is going on? I’ve logged over half a million nautical miles. This has never happened before. The plane drops. A few hundred feet before I can steady it. June gasps, clapping a hand over her mouth.
And then the engines cut out.
It’s silent in the sky. Wind skims over the fuselage. My heart pounds in my ears. I ignore all of it.
Because we’re going down.
There’s nothing to keep this plane in the air.
Not a prayer in the world could keep us flying without engines.
“We’re going to land.” It’s the truth and nothing but the truth. There are no other choices. It’s land the plane or die. “Brace yourself.”
“No,” she breathes.
It’s only a whisper of breath, but I hear it. I feel it, brushing over my skin. I’m tuned in to her. Into the plane. Adrenaline floods my veins, making me tuned into the fucking universe. And every single signal is telling me that we’re fucked.
A patch of green in the ocean comes into view. It looks impossibly small. Too small to land on, much less reach, but as we hurtle forward, it gets larger. Becomes an island. The island I saw on the map.
That’s it.
Our only chance at survival.
Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance. Her books have sold over one million copies. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.
Amelia is a USA Today best selling author from northern Michigan. Be her friend!
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