Catching Dragos
by Gail Koger
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Everyone calls Mariah Smith the Judge. No, she doesn't wear a black robe or sit on a bench. She provides a unique service to those who have been wronged. She's an expert in paybacks both psychic and magical.
Mariah's next target is the famous supermodel Fabian. Smoking hot body, the face of an Italian sinner and dumb as a rock. His crime? Sticky fingers. The man whore makes millions of dollars a year, but can't resist seducing elderly women out of their jewelry? How does she resist all that tanned, male perfection and unmask Fabian as the gigolo he truly is?
Mariah soon discovers Mister Sticky fingers isn't quite as dim-witted as he acts. He's actually the Dragos clan's top demon hunter who is stealing back magical artifacts that open gateways to hell. Now that she's attracted Fabian's attention, he's determined to possess her and her magical abilities.
My name’s
Mariah Smith, but everyone calls me the Judge. No, I don’t wear a black robe or
sit on a bench. Using my psychic and magical abilities, I provide a unique
service to those who have been wronged. I’m in the business of paybacks.
How did I
choose this career path? Justice. I wanted justice for my father. Dad was one
hell of a cop. His partner, Dan Harvey, not so much.
Dan’s midlife
crisis led him to dump his wife of twenty years and shack up with Bambi, a
hot-to-trot teenager. When my dad found out she was only sixteen, he tried to
talk his partner into stopping the affair. When that didn’t work, my father was
forced to tell the chief of police what was going on.
That ended Dan’s
career, his illicit affair, and their partnership. The court sentenced the
idiot to a year in county lockup. The minute Dan got out of jail and foundout
Bambi had moved on to fresher game, he lost it.
He cleaned out
his ex-wife’s bank account, shot my father, and fled. My dad survived but had
to learn to walk again. The lame-ass detective they assigned to the case
misplaced the evidence, and the county attorney refused to prosecute.
Using my
rather awesome psychic abilities, I tracked the jerk to Mexico. While my dad
recovered from a bullet in the back, Dan was having the time of his life in
Acapulco.
He drove a
flashy red sports car and had a luxury villa with a spectacular view of the
bay. I was going to teach Dan a well-deserved lesson. First he would lose his
libido, his looks, his money, the car, and the villa.
Dan’s
oversexed libido was in high gear, and he wasn’t content until he had bedded at
least five women a day. Did he practice safe sex? Hell, no. He liked going
commando, and Senorita Clap soon had him walking like a bowlegged cowboy. It
was a real shame his meds didn’t work.
Disguised as a
maid, I soon discovered Dan took a popular baldness drug that had some rather
nasty side effects. It caused men’s genitals to shrink, and within a month 80 percent
of the users became impotent. I tripled his dose, and damn, it worked. He
couldn’t get it up, and not even the little blue pill helped.
Dan was an
extremely vain man. Instead of getting braces for his son, he blew the money on
veneers for his own teeth. I added a mixture of nicotine, black tar, and a dash
of magic to his toothpaste. Presto! Pearly whites gone. I hacked his bank
account, sent the money back to his ex-wife, and reported Dan’s bogus credit
cards to the Mexican Federales and his landlord.
Next, I
hotwired Dan’s sports car and drove it down to the poorer side of town. I
watched gleefully as it was stripped down to the frame. I had it towed back to
his villa. Dan threw a hissy fit and
unloaded his Glock into the remains. Sometimes getting your car back simply
isn’t enough.
Dan’s
expression when he got arrested for fraud? Priceless. He’s now doing time in a
Mexican prison. That’s what I call justice.
How do I come up with my stories? Being psychotic helps. I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher for way too long. All those years of wild requests, screwy questions, bizarre behavior and outrageous demands have left me with a permanent twitch and an uncontrollable craving for chocolate. Don’t get me wrong. Working as a 9-1-1 dispatcher can be very rewarding. BUT - some days I felt like the entire world was nuts. I mean, c’mon, who in their right mind calls 9-1-1 for the winning lottery numbers? To keep from hitting myself repeatedly in the head with my phone, I took up writing.
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1 comment:
Thanks for hosting Catching Dragos! What ordinary girl wouldn’t want to spend time with a hunky, sexy, demon-hunting thief? But Mariah's no ordinary girl, she's the Judge, an expert in magical paybacks and Fabian is about to
find out that court is in session.
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