Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend: An Extended Sample

By Allyson J. Myers

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Brenna was focused on solving the mystery of The Black Orlov, but in the process she uncovered more than she bargained for. What happens when the mysteries surrounding her career begin to cross with the mysteries surrounding her heart?

Brenna McKay got the offer of her career. She was just an intern, but she’d been called upon to assist the heads of the Archaeogemology department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in identifying a rare black diamond. She learned soon enough that the 666 carat diamond was one of the top ten cursed gemstones in human history called The Black Orlov, but that wasn’t the true mystery. The location it was found, the items found with it, and era of the sediment all contradicted each other. Brenna took the items home to research the dissimilarities.

But she was soon to find out that the mystery of the black diamond was so much more than she thought. Brenna was attacked almost immediately leaving the museum, rescued by a man just as fierce and large as her assailant. Then promptly kidnapped. March, her dubious savior, explained the reality that was The Black Orlov, and why so many people have died terribly since it was discovered. 

The time Brenna and March spend together putting the pieces of a grandiose puzzle together would reveal more than just answers about the diamond to her. Who were the people out to kill her? What was so important about the black diamond? And most importantly, who or what was the man she was falling for?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pretty Booked, LLC
• Release date: Dec 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781637182161

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Demons Are A Girl’s Best Friend Sample

DEMONS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND SAMPLE

ALLYSON J. MYERS

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CONTENTS

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Synopsis

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

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Dirty Possession

Lost Without You

Cold-Hearted: An Enemies to Lovers Romance

The Fighter: Love’s Trauma

Taming a Bad Boy: The McKnight Boys

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SYNOPSIS

Brenna was focused on solving the mystery of The Black Orlov, but in the process she uncovered more than she bargained for. What happens when the mysteries surrounding her career begin to cross with the mysteries surrounding her heart?

Brenna McKay got the offer of her career. She was just an intern, but she’d been called upon to assist the heads of the Archaeogemology department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in identifying a rare black diamond. She learned soon enough that the 666 carat diamond was one of the top ten cursed gemstones in human history called The Black Orlov, but that wasn’t the true mystery. The location it was found, the items found with it, and era of the sediment all contradicted each other. Brenna took the items home to research the dissimilarities.

But she was soon to find out that the mystery of the black diamond was so much more than she thought. Brenna was attacked almost immediately leaving the museum, rescued by a man just as fierce and large as her assailant. Then promptly kidnapped. March, her dubious savior, explained the reality that was The Black Orlov, and why so many people have died terribly since it was discovered. 

The time Brenna and March spend together putting the pieces of a grandiose puzzle together would reveal more than just answers about the diamond to her. Who were the people out to kill her? What was so important about the black diamond? And most importantly, who or what was the man she was falling for?

PROLOGUE

July 10 th

02:34:46

New York, New York, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Archaeology Laboratory;

Gemology Department

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We were the only ones left in the department. Hell, we were the only ones left in the whole damn museum except for the night security.

Again.

This was the tenth night, in a row, and I realized we were no closer to solving this confounded mystery than we had been three nights ago. I was frustrated, and I was scared. While my partner tried to make even the slightest connection between location and discoveries, I had researched the history of the piece. My findings, frankly, gave me nightmares. Of course, being a scientist, I could not let myself buy into superstition. But as a wife and a mother…

That’s it, I said as I pointedly closed my laptop. The soft click of the monitor connecting with the keyboard echoed in the empty lab. It sounded ominous to me, but again, science over fantasy. I couldn’t deny that was exactly what I was doing, though.

I’m done with it. I began to pack up my things even before my lab partner could look up from his loupe.

Dr. Melnyk squinted his eyes at me. He was the museum’s man through and through. His loyalty had been well established years ago when the board had paid for his move from Ukraine. He had earned his place as one of the heads of the department, but he wasn’t someone who thought outside the box.

We can’t be done with it, he sputtered at me. The museum wants answers. They wanted them two days ago.

Then they can find them somewhere else! A lack of sleep, not seeing my family for more than a couple hours, eating nothing but take-out for every meal, it had all left me cranky. "I’m not taking the