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Submerged (Mountain Cove), by Elizabeth Goddard
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With Christmas just around the corner, Cobie MacBride wants closure in the case of her missing father. But when a visit to the last place he was seen leads to an attack by a masked assailant, Cobie knows she's in over her head. Running for her life, she never expected to find safety with Adam Warren—the man she blames for her brother's death. Seeking answers leads them to a treasure ship, buried secrets…and deadly danger. Christmas could find them starting a new future—if they can avoid getting trapped in the perils of the past.
MOUNTAIN COVE: In the Alaskan wilderness, love and danger collide
Submerged (Mountain Cove), by Elizabeth Goddard - Amazon Sales Rank: #281873 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Released on: 2015-10-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Submerged (Mountain Cove), by Elizabeth Goddard Review "The latest book in the Mountain Cove series has the feel of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. . . "RT Book Reviews on SUBMERGED, 4 STARS!
About the Author Elizabeth Goddard is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than twenty-three romance novels. A 7th generation Texan, Elizabeth graduated with a B.S. degree in computer science and worked in high-level software sales for several years before retiring to home school her children and fulfill her dream of becoming an author. She lives in East Texas with her husband and four children.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Kessler Island, Southeast Alaska SeptemberDread crept up Cobie MacBride's spine. She'd never wanted to do this again. But here she was, facing her past in an attempt to gain a future. Facing a cave again, when she never wanted to see the inside of another one after the caving accident that had taken her brother Brad's life. She was here today for an entirely different reason, and yet it was all connected.She'd expected a yawning opening, but instead she stared at the slim crawlway into the cave, low and vertical. A muddy chute into the underworld. A trickle of water ran down the towering rock face; velvety moss covered the ground and entrance. Surrounded by the lush greenery of ferns, the cave—a product of this karst-laden land—had remained hidden on Kessler Island, one of thousands of islands, most uninhabited, in southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest.Her archaeologist father had found it and written about it in his journal. That was the only reason she was here. He had been missing for six months now and presumed dead. They'd been estranged for years, until last Christmas when he'd called and claimed he wanted to make up for the past and would be in touch soon.She never heard from him again.Peering at the cave now—a place where he'd recently been and walked, that one last connection to him—Cobie knew she wouldn't go inside alone. Bad enough she'd arrived on the island via floatplane ahead of Laura and Jen, two spelunking buddies she'd lost touch with over the years who had been eager enough to go on this venture with her. After she'd dumped her pack containing extra clothes, food and other supplies at the public-use cabin, she'd figured she could scout out one of the two cave entrances detailed in her father's journal. He'd made sure that someone delivered the journal into her hands, leaving her with more questions than answers. All she wanted to do was go inside and see the last thing her father had written about.The whir of a boat in the distance pulled her thoughts back to the present. That must be Laura and Jen now. Better head back to the cabin.She reached for her bottled water.From behind, a strong arm wrapped around her throat in a choke hold and squeezed. Her air supply cut off, Cobie didn't have time to think, just react. She twisted and pulled and kicked, but the man's thick muscled arm didn't budge. She wasn't breaking free from this.She wanted to ask him why he was trying to kill her. Persuade him to let her go. But she couldn't croak out the words. Pressure built in her head. Darkness edged her vision.Cobie couldn't die like this. She was the only one of her family left. But what to do? Her life was slipping away…He'd gripped her tightly enough that she couldn't headbutt. She'd never wrestle his arm away from her throat.She let go, flailing. Her lungs screamed. Her head felt as if it would explode.God, please, help me!Her hand bumped a rock. A rock! That was the only way. She had seconds before she passed out. Or before he crushed her throat completely.Her fingers reached for the rock, grappling, feeling the rough edges, unable to secure it, until finally she gripped the weapon. Prickles of light flashed across her vision. Before she was gone, before it was too late, she put all her strength into slamming the rock into his head.Immediately, his grip loosened. He dropped her and collapsed.Cobie crashed to the ground, sharp pebbles and sticks cutting into her knees. She reached for her neck—had to be bruised—as she sucked in oxygen. Rolling to her side, she let her vision clear, the pressure from her head ease.Someone had just tried to kill her. Worse, he was still there. She gathered her strength and pushed to her feet. Still wobbly, she pressed a hand against the gray wall of limestone towering above her. She eyed the man. He was clad in a gray rain jacket over a green plaid shirt, and she guessed he was above average height and weight. Strong. But she couldn't identify him, couldn't even tell the color of his hair. He wore a black knit ski mask to hide every feature that mattered. That made this attempted murder appear premeditated; he must have planned to kill someone today. Planned to kill her.Blood oozed from the rip in his mask where she'd hit him, and she could see the gash at his temple. Cobie pressed her hands to her own head. Had she just killed a man? It was self-defense, but still it was too much to comprehend. Nausea surged in her stomach. Then she saw his chest rise and fall. So he wasn't dead. She stepped closer, unsure what to do now.Pull his mask off? See who it was? Or should she try to put as much distance between them as she could before he woke up?Cobie crept forward. If he remained unconscious, she could slip the mask off. Identify him to the police or whoever amounted to law on this forsaken island. He groaned. Lifted a hand to his forehead. Cobie froze. Held her breath.If she could get closer she could knock him out again. Maybe. But if he woke up completely and she was still here, she was dead.She took off into the forest. Had to get deep into the thick of it. She could make her way around to the cabin somehow. She had to warn her friends. There was no cell service out here, and her SAT phone was at the cabin. At least Laura always carried a weapon. She might have to use it. Cobie had been told there weren't bears on the island, so she hadn't worried about that kind of protection, but she hadn't considered there might be the two-legged kind of predator to worry about.There shouldn't even be anyone else on this small island. Not until later in the day when other cavers were coming to map the cave for the forest service. That much she'd found out, at least, and she'd wanted to beat them to it. See the place the way her father had seen it. Now she was regretting that she'd ever come. And, worse, that she'd invited friends, possibly putting them in danger.Why had he tried to kill her?Cobie pressed through the thick forest, breathing hard, running as fast as she could. Hoping the man would forget about her. Consider her too much trouble to follow. Too much trouble to kill. Maybe he'd realize she wasn't the person he was after.Behind her, leaves rustled. Limbs and sticks crashed. Like Bigfoot himself was tracking her.Panic engulfed her. Coursed through her veins and left her timid and shaking. Afraid she wasn't going to survive this.So many regrets.Too many. Oh, God, please give me another chance to set everything right. Please give me a chance to let go. I know I have to forgive. So much bad had happened; she'd lost count of everything that she'd let sprout into bitterness and resentment.Cobie pushed through the forest and stopped, leaning and flailing over the cliff's edge, a good forty feet above the waterline. She caught herself and stepped back. The sea cliff could be where the other entrance to the cave was, somewhere at the bottom.Covering her mouth, she let out a sob and turned to face the forest behind her. A dark cloud had moved over the sun, turning the sky somber. Muting the lush green of the forest. Even the water of the strait, connecting with the ocean to the southwest, had turned black. Violent.She was trapped.She could hear him coming for her. See the leaves moving. He was getting closer.Cobie turned to face the water surrounding the island. A boat. She saw a trawler. She waved and yelled and screamed, trying to draw the boat's attention. What did it matter if the man heard her calling for help? He was coming for her either way.But the boat was too far away for anyone on board to hear her cries for help. Too far away to assist even if they did. Her knees buckled. She wanted to drop to the ground and beg for her life. But the killer wasn't interested in her words. Of that she was sure. If she stayed here, the man would kill her for reasons unknown. He didn't seem interested in giving or taking information from her.Oh, God, I'm not ready to die. So much left to do yet. To figure out.She couldn't stay where she was. But she could jump. And if she jumped, she just might miss the rocks. Then again, she could meet with a rocky death, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of killing her.Still, a plunge into the water below gave her a better chance of a survival.Cobie sent up one last prayer. She took a running, flying leap off the sea cliff.Adam Warren's stomach churned as he leaned over the railing at the side of the trawler, struggling to get his sea legs. The waters of the strait to the southwest of Kessler Island had turned dark and rough as they flowed out of Chambers Passage, just one of the many waterways of the Inside Passage weaving through Alaska's panhandle.He rubbed his eyes. Squinted. Was motion sickness making him hallucinate? What had he just seen? "Guys?""I saw her, too." Gary headed up the winding staircase to the bridge. Turned his parents' trawler to starboard.Though far away, they'd been close enough to see what looked like long brown hair whipping around, jacket flying up to reveal a trim figure as she jumped into the crashing waves.Everyone rushed to the bridge with Gary, the highest point on the boat. "What do you think? Suicide?"Nate and Jared, two of Adam's caving buddies, scanned the depths with Adam as the trawler sliced through the rough waves."No." A sense of urgency wrapped around Adam. Please, God, let her be okay.He quickly shrugged out of his rain jacket, preparing to dive in after her, if needed. But where was she? He grabbed the life buoy and prepared to toss it out. But depending on how she hit the water, at that height, she could have a compressed spine, or any number of other injuries. She'd drown if they didn't find her, if she wasn't already sinking from cold water shock response.Then Nate sucked in a breath. "I see her! There she is!" He pointed at the water, miles and miles of water.Gary steered the boat toward where Nate pointed.Adam searched the waters, too. A head bobbed. She waved. But then she went under again. "Get this thing closer, will you?"He couldn't swim faster than the trawler, so he'd have to bide his time. But if they didn't make it soon, she was going under for good. Gary was experienced enough at handling the boat. Adam trusted him to do his best, but it was still taking too long. Adam and his siblings volunteered on the North Face Mountain Search and Rescue Team—it gnawed at him to stand back and wait when someone needed help.They neared the last place they saw the jumper, and Adam bounded down the steps to the lower deck and tossed the lifesaving buoy into the water. But the woman didn't surface again. Without hesitation he dived into the cold depths of the strait, then swam toward the ring he'd tossed.He guessed the water temperature to be in the low fifties, maybe high forties. Brutal enough to send a person into cold incapacitation—the loss of control of hands and the muscles in the arms and legs. Before long, they would quit working altogether.The water's usual dark blue was almost an inky black, but as he dived beneath the surface it was crystal clear, so that he could see.There.He saw her well enough. She still had some fight in her, but her eyes were wide with terror as she fought a losing battle to the surface. Her limbs had become too cold and numb to make a difference. Soon Adam would also succumb. But she'd been in the water much longer than he had. He could do this. He could save her.Had to save her. He couldn't fail again. Couldn't let someone drown again, though his best friend's death would always be on his head.His lungs burned as he thrust toward her, seized her arm and, with all his strength, swam them to the surface. He grabbed the life buoy and pulled her out of the bitingly cold water. Nate and Jared tugged them toward the boat, and Adam held on to the woman. Water poured from her mouth as she coughed and choked.Fueled by adrenaline, even his relief that she hadn't drowned couldn't slow his racing pulse. His buddies assisted them onto the trawler, and then forgot about Adam and ushered her inside the galley, where it was warm. Dripping and cold, Adam followed and saw Jared wrap a blanket around her. Her lips were blue in her pale face as she shivered and sat in the booth, still gasping for breath."You need to remain still. Get warmed up," Jared told them.Adam knew Jared referred to post-rescue collapse. They had to wait until their systems had warmed up completely so their hearts would stabilize.Before he slid into the booth beside her, she lifted the biggest bluest eyes he'd ever seen to meet his gaze.Adam knew those eyes.Stunned, he took a step back. She appeared equally surprised to see him. Maybe in the urgency of the rescue, recognition hadn't kicked in for either of them.When Jared handed over a mug of microwaved cocoa, she eagerly took it. Adam wrapped his hand around the mug offered him, and settled in next to Cobie MacBride.At one time, Cobie had been the only woman for him. She'd cured him of ever wanting to go through that again. Weird to think she didn't even know about the feelings he'd had."Thank you for saving me." She shook her head, stared into her cup. Her beautiful eyes had lost none of their grief from the tragedy that had left her brother dead, but some sort of wild terror swam in them now, as well."What happened?" Adam asked. "Why'd you jump?"He wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer. He couldn't stand it if she said she'd been trying to kill herself. But he wouldn't believe it, either. She'd waved for them; she'd wanted their help. And if they hadn't been there? Adam clamped down on those thoughts."I didn't have a choice."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Treasure Hunting Suspense Romance By Bunnyhop This book hooks you from the first page! It also keeps you turning the pages from then on! I found myself saying, "What more can happen to poor Cobie (the main character)?" She goes through so many terrifying things, but as a reader, that just makes a book great! I really had a hard time putting this book down and found myself reading it in 2 days. Cobie didn't have a very good relationship with her father, who was an archaeologist and was never around when she was growing up but he's been missing for several months and she has his journal so she decides to go to the last place he was, to try to find answers - a cave on an island in Alaska. She doesn't count on being attacked by a masked assailant and then finding her dead father in the cave! While she's running for her life, she jumps off a cliff in the ocean and who should save her but the one man she didn't really want to see again....Adam, who she blames for her brother's death! In this book there is a treasure ship, secrets, a bomb and danger at every turn! Cobie and Adam are trying to stay one step ahead of whoever is trying to kill Cobie....but WHY are they trying to kill her??? Read the book and find out!!!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mountain Cove #4 Submerged By katrina Epperson Elizabeth Goddard introduced us to the Warren family and the fictional town of Mountain Cove in the first book of this series, Buried, which was released in March 2015. This is the fourth installment in the series, but this book as with the first three is in my opinion a stand alone story.In Submerged we travel back to Mountain Cove located in southeast Alaska and meet Cobie MacBride and Adam Warren.Adam is very adventurous, but that's not surprising coming from the Warren family. Unfortunately Adam has been trying to deal with numerous things and has just about reached his wits end. Adam loves spelunking, caving, and has agreed to help his friends map some caves off the Alaskan coast. Regrettably Adam lost a friend years ago to a caving accident and he has yet to put that grief or guilt behind him.Cobie has a prosperous dental practice in Mountain Cove and feels it gives her the one thing she needs, stability. Growing up she would go for months without seeing her father because family always came second to his job. The death of her brother 5 years ago was still fresh in Cobie's mind and probably not something she was soon to forget. A woman out of Seattle notified her she hadn't heard from her father in months and had reported him missing. Cobie decided to search the known place he had been in hopes of finding some clues to his whereabouts.I loved this book and the dynamics between the two leading characters. Elizabeth Goddard's ability to weave words together is amazing. The first few pages drew me in. This book has a good flow and pace that keeps the reader's attention. The characters are are very complex with very real issues, but so lovable. When important factors are brought to the surface the characters find things more complicated than they ever imagined.As with every book I look for a spiritual message. The message I received from this book was one of forgiveness, not only in others, but also in yourself. We all make mistakes. Sometimes holding on to the past can prevent you from having a future. I would definitely recommend this book and series to anyone. It has a wonderful romance interlaced with an adventure and suspense.I received this book from the author for a honest review without bias or outside influence.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Another Great Page Turner From Goddard! By Kara Grant Wow, this was another page turner from Goddard where you just have to know what happens to the main characters! Cobie and her father have not spoken since her brother accidentally drowned years ago, but she recently heard from him and then he goes missing. As she tries to uncover clues about his disappearance, she almost gets killed several times.Adam sees Cobie jump from a cliff and dives into the water to save her. From that moment, he's involved and he'll do anything to right a wrong that happened between them when her brother drowned.I thought the bad guys were way too greedy in this one, they really make it obvious who they are with each threat they issue to Cobie, however, the suspense was well written and kept me captivated!Cobie knows nothing can happen between her and Adam, but she has never stopped caring for him and if they can survive her father's mystery, maybe she can finally forgive Adam.I really liked both characters, but I understood Adam's annoyance with Cobie for not listening to him when he consistently tries to keep her safe. He's really a great guy who needs to figure out his next step. When Cobie comes back into his life, he's determined to protect her even though she constantly pushes him away. I admired his strength and stubbornness.Looking forward to more of Goddard's books, she knows how to keep the reader's attention!
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