Friday Feature, Excerpt & Giveaway: Rich by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

Title: Rich by Janet Elizabeth Henderson
Benson Security Series Book Five
Publisher: Janet Elizabeth Henderson
Genre: Contemporary, Adult, Thriller
Length: 341 pages

Summary:

She has secrets, and he has the training to uncover them.

Rachel Ford-Talbot has nothing to do with her family or their pharmaceutical business. And she likes it that way. As one of four partners who own an internationally renowned security business, Rachel prefers to leave her past, with all its secrets, deeply buried.

But when a series of thefts reveal that the family business is being targeted for industrial espionage, her father begs Rachel to investigate. His illness makes it hard for her to refuse, but Rachel wonders if he truly understands what he’s unleashing on his company. Because she isn’t the same bright-eyed graduate that walked through their doors years earlier. Now, she’s strong, powerful, and somewhat terrifying. A woman who doesn’t suffer fools lightly and who is afraid of nothing.

She also isn’t alone.

This time, she has the might and expertise of Benson Security at her back. And an ex-CIA agent at her side—because Michael “Harvard” Carter has appointed himself her bodyguard for the duration. Even though Rachel doesn’t need, or want, the annoyingly sexy man’s help. But while the world sees a first-class bitch when they look at her, Michael sees only someone who intrigues him. Which makes him the biggest threat of all.

***This is a standalone novel. You don’t have to have read any of my other books to enjoy it.***

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Excerpt

When Ryan came in with the pizzas, he was already eating a slice.

“Told you,” Elle said, her head still on the table, but angled to watch Ryan.

“There’s still plenty left.” He put the boxes, opened the lids, and started piling up slices on his plate.

“Not for long,” Elle muttered, sitting up to get some before Ryan demolished it all.

Rachel just stared at the boxes. “What is this? Where did we get it? This isn’t the pizza I usually get.”

Ryan shook his head at her, but there was a twitch of a smile around his lips. “That’s because your pizza usually comes from a Michelin star chef and is dusted with gold.”

“As it should be,” she answered with a completely straight face.

“Just try it,” Harvard said. “You might like it.”

When she made no move to get any, he took a slice from the meat lover’s pizza and put it on her plate. She stared at it as though it’d dropped from Mars.

“You can do it, Rachel,” he said with a grin. “I have faith in you.”

Shooting him a glare, she picked up her knife and fork and cut off a piece, which she delicately put into her mouth.

“That’s not how you eat pizza!” Ryan was outraged. He was also covered in pizza sauce.

Rachel ignored him and inclined her head in thought as she chewed. “This is tolerable,” she said at last, making Harvard chuckle.

Harvard went to the wine rack and grabbed a bottle of red wine for Rachel. He put it and a glass beside her. Then he sat back down, picked up his beer, and ate pizza the way normal people did it—with his fingers.

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Author Bio

Janet is a Scot who moved to New Zealand fifteen years ago. Among other things, she’s been an artist, a teacher, a security guard at a castle, a magazine editor, and a cleaner in a drop in center for drug addicts (NOT the best job!). She now writes full-time and is working on her 19th book. Her books have won several awards, including the Daphne du Maurier award for excellence in mystery and suspense. When she isn’t living in her head, she raises two kids, one husband, and several random animals. She survives on chocolate and caffeine.

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