title: The Sheriff's Betrayal
author:  Linn Keller 
description: LINN KELLER is an expatriated Appalachian storyteller who lived "under the siren" for more than two decades as a firefighter-EMT, EMT-Paramedic and deputy marshal ... simultaneously.Somewhere in all that active confusion he became a nurse, and through it all he remains licensed and active in municipal water and wastewater treatment. A lifetime historian, researcher and re-enactor, Keller lectures on the Civil War and Morgan's Raid, lives reluctantly in Northeast Ohio when he cannot get away to a Western European monastery in the 10th Century, where he portrays Brother William, a Cistercian monk -- or into the American West in the 1880s, where he portrays the second Sheriff of Firelands County, Colorado.His wife assures him he still doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up.Keller has written The Sheriff's Legacy (October 2008) and now its sequel, The Sheriff's Betrayal. The third book in the Sheriff's series, The Sheriff's Journal, is planned for October 2010, with another in the works.
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  A new neighbor...  
  or a stranger next door?
  
  Under-the-radar FBI agent Deacon Ross is on a mission of vengeance. He is in
  Winchester, Tennessee, to get it. After years away from home, Cecelia Winters
  is back to find her father’s killer. She’s faced with a hostile town fraught
  with danger—then she meets her new neighbor, Deacon. With two cases colliding
  and desire blindsiding them, will the search for the truth cost Cece and
  Deacon more than a future together?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Where are we going?”
  
  “We’re going to see your sister’s old boyfriend. I intend to beat the rest of
  the truth out of him and then we’re calling the sheriff.”
  
  That look—the one like a wild animal trapped in the headlights of an oncoming
  car—claimed her face, filled Cece’s eyes. “You believe me?”
  
  Before he could stop himself, Deacon grabbed her face in his hands and kissed
  her. He hadn’t meant to. Definitely had not meant to kiss her so hard and so
  deeply. Her lips felt so soft beneath his. Her skin so 