Today we have Catching Preeya by Rissa Brahm,
a sexy new contemporary romance.
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About Catching Preeya:
Fight…
Flight attendant Preeya Patel wears her mother’s wanderlust-genes like a catwalk model. After quitting med school, she flies fast-and-free through her twenties—a staunch middle finger to her Dr. Dad. She wants the life of her dreams—a wild ride with a savage partner in crime to go with it. But dreams don’t often match what fate delivers…
Flight…
Young widower, Dr. Ben Trainer, is flying to Mexico, joining yet another vaccine mission, alleviating his grief and guilt one needy soul at a time. And…risking his life might just set him free.
Or Fall…
When an in-flight emergency throws Ben and Preeya together to save a child, logic and whimsy collide. Both lost souls’ find something hot and deep and true—an unforeseen connection. But dreams morph, old nightmares haunt, secrets surface. In order to navigate their futures, they must face their pasts.
Hard.
Will Preeya recognize the man of her wildest dreams? Or will Ben fly from this second-chance love before her eyes open? A fight—or flight—to the finish…for love.
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The AEDs? Preeya swallowed hard and nearly
choked on the dryness in her throat. Please
don’t need the defib pads for this boy. This child.
Ben’s
hand met hers, as if sensing her terror. “Probably won’t need ’em; it’s just in
case. Second epi shot, please.”
While he
checked the boy’s carotid again, she placed the injector in his free hand.
“Pulse
and breathing are slowing.” He held the shot up to his face and checked the
injector’s dosage. “Another point-three milligrams…here we go.” He slammed it
hard into the boy’s other thigh.
They
both stared at the child. At his eyes and face, his throat, his chest…which had
ceased any and all movement. The boy’s breath had stopped.
“Okay,
buddy, let’s do this.” Ben glanced at his watch to note the time again, then
rose up on his knees and began CPR.
“The
pads, now?” Preeya asked from the floor while holding Ben’s waist to balance
him through a rough patch of turbulence.
Between
counts, “No, not yet.”
Ben
finished two swift breaths into the boy’s mouth, now purple lips. Still
nothing. “Yes—two, three, four—the pads.” Breath, breath. “But, Jesus, a defibrillator
on this age heart…”
Shit, was Ben getting concerned?
“I’m
going to grab the AEDs myself—Leena’s taking too long.” She spun toward first
class to go, but Ben grabbed her wrist before she took a step.
Ben
couldn’t say a word to follow up his touch before she heard it. A gasp.
A gasp
from heaven, that’s what met her ears.
The boy
jolted, his torso suddenly perpendicular to his legs, clutching his neck in his
hands, air flooding into his shocked and oxygen-deprived body. The lanky and
frail twelve-year-old body, now sitting up with life. Alive, thank God.
His mother
came running up the aisle toward them and knelt at her boy’s feet. Ben slid
behind the boy at the window end of the row and let the child rest on Ben’s
chest while the child continued to oxygenate.
Preeya’s
heart racked her rib cage and, officially dizzy from adrenaline and pure fear,
she let her body slide to the floor then surrender back onto her calves. She
swallowed back the emotion, held it at the brink. Oh God, that mother’s terror.
Dear Jesus, the weight of the mere thought of losing a child made her never,
ever want kids. Thoughts of losing Prana, her baby sister, swept in but Preeya
blew them out again with a violent gust as quick as they’d come. No, not ever.
Leena
was there the next second, heaving with relief. “Oh God, thank you.”
“Landing…?”
Ben asked of Leena.
“Boise.
Seven minutes out.”
“With
this type of allergic event, we don’t know if there will be another episode.
Have an ambulance standing by. And two more injections at the ready.”
Preeya
got up from the floor. “The kit in the front has two more. I’ll get ’em. And
waters…” The boy’s mother brought one back for her son as Preeya had instructed.
“I’ll bring back a few more bottles.”
“Yes.
Please,” Ben said, his head leaning against the hard window shade, the boy
still panting, eyes closed, weak, wilted against Ben’s sweat-drenched and heaving
chest.
Preeya
started down the aisle, but looked back over her shoulder.
At Dr.
Ben Trainer.
How’d he
do it? Moment by moment, breath by breath, he’d pushed life back into the lifeless. He literally breathed a second
chance into that near-dead boy, that hardly-lived-yet son of that mother, that
gasping-and-grasping child, the brother to that wailing little girl. To keep it
down, all of the erupting near-death
and too-close, Preeya bit her bottom
lip. Hard. So hard it might’ve drawn blood—she didn’t know or care. But the
sharp pain did its job. No tears. Breathe,
and no tears.
It had
been just way too much life and death.
Perhaps she’d stumbled upon yet another subconscious reason for having dropped
out of medical school. Life and death. Not
for her.
Rissa Brahm Bio:
Contemporary romance writer Rissa Brahm grew up in New York and has since lived in all four corners of the United States, and beyond. The beautiful paradise of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico—the core setting of her hot & heartfelt debut series, Paradise South—is Rissa’s most recent and beloved home.
After two decades of working in the rigid—and sometimes blurry—world of finance, she's taken hold of her truest dream, writing hot and heartfelt stories full time.
When not chained-by-choice to her MacBook, she is embarking on outdoor adventures with her husband and little girl, laughing to tears with a good rom com, eating amazing Indian food with something chocolate for dessert; reading good, hot scorchers in bed; biking, long walks, and yoga; zoning out to killer music from across the decades and the globe; and getting lost only to discover a new exciting route home again. You can connect with Rissa on Facebook, Twitter or by email anytime by heading to www.RissaBrahm.com.
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