![]() When they did, she nearly dropped the gun in shock. Adrenaline pumped furiously through her veins as she waited for the occupants to get out. She gripped the stock of her pistol, and her finger caressed the trigger. A light-colored sedan pulled to a stop beside her Jeep. She flattened herself against the wall next to the window, and, with one finger, she pulled the curtains slightly open and peered out. She yanked her gun from her back waistband and hurried in the direction of the door. The sound of tires crunching on gravel drew her attention to the window. And if she were really lucky, she could escape the person she had become. Then she’d disappear to some foreign country and start a new life. All her weapons, with the exception of the pistol she carried, were secured in the back of the Jeep, and the rest of her supplies were tucked away in a locker in Denver. ![]() She threw a change of clothes and several packets of dried rations into an overnight bag. She slipped inside, intent on collecting her sparse belongings and hitting the road. Spurred to action, she mounted the steps to the cabin that overlooked Miramonte Reservoir and opened the door. She closed her eyes and then deliberately hardened her mind, shutting out everything but the task at hand. Though she knew she must hurry, she allowed herself one more moment to revel in the stark beauty of the Colorado sky. Here in this untamed land, the illusion of freedom was ever present, yet she viewed it as she would a magician’s feat-pleasing, but not real. Sadness that she would soon move on crept through her, inserting an unrelenting ache in her chest.Ĭlosing her eyes, she breathed deeply of the pine-scented air. Around her, the rugged beauty of the mountains gave her a small measure of comfort she’d long been without. She slammed the door and leaned heavily on the cold metal. But she didn’t harbor any illusions that it would last for long. The remote cabin she had been staying in for the last week had afforded her privacy…so far. Jules Trehan climbed out of her rented Jeep and looked warily around her. This book will release simultaneously in ebook and in trade paperback format. The book has been re-edited and revised with new cover treatment. Long Road Home is a reissue of a book originally published in 2007 under the name Sharon Long. It’s a mission she must complete…even if it means betraying the only man she has ever loved. Just when there’s a glimmer of hope of overcoming her past, Jules must pull off one last job or Manny’s life will be forfeit. Knowing her testimony will finally bring down the organization, Manny races to get her to Washington, D.C. Kidnapped by a shadowy organization, Jules has been forced to become the very thing he’s pledged his life to defeat-a terrorist assassin. Manny is shocked by the change in the woman he once knew. Then, as suddenly as she disappeared, Jules Trehan turns up in a small-town Colorado hospital bed, injured in an explosion that killed her parents. We’re all in this together.CIA counter-terrorism expert Manual Ramirez has spent the last three years looking for the woman he loves, who disappeared without a trace while on a post-graduate trip to France. “I hope take away that this is a story about humans and family,” Bourquin said. This isn’t a story about one platoon, he said. “Why not turn to them again when you’re going through difficult things?” he said of his fellow soldiers who are also involved with the series. “The fact that I’m still sitting here breathing is not lost on me,” he said, adding that staying connected to his battle buddies has really helped him work through everything that happened. “I was healing by exposing myself over and over to this and just speaking about this to all the people.”īourquin said he started therapy in 2008 and has done “extensive amounts” since, but he said working on this series has been equal to those years of therapy. “The ability to be back in Iraq, back on my battlefield, without having to actually travel there and face the dangers that are present there has been fantastic,” he said. The set for the show was built around Fort Hood, where the soldiers trained before deploying.Ībout 80 buildings were constructed to resemble Sadr City, and Bourquin said being on the set with the cast and crew and putting them through training was a nice full circle.
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