In Isabeau's Eyes


 
 
 
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 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 Names: Leigh, Lora, author.
 Title: In Isabeau’s eyes / Lora Leigh.
 Description: First Edition. | New York: Berkley Romance, 2023. | Series: Kentucky nights; 1
 Identifiers: LCCN 2022026272 (print) | LCCN 2022026273 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399583872 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780399583889 (ebook)
 Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
 Classification: LCC PS3612.E357 I5 2023 (print) | LCC PS3612.E357 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20220627
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 First Edition: March 2023
 Cover design by Rita Frangie
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 Book design by George Towne, adapted for ebook by Molly Jeszke
 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, 
 
 For my little Pied Piper.
 Gammy loves you, girl.
 Always.
 And for Darryl and Maxine.
 Thank you for your friendship.
 
 
 One
 She’d almost died. Again. And this time, the near miss had nearly taken someone else as well.
 Isabeau Boudreaux sat still and silent in the front seat of the pickup she’d been led to, the door open, fighting the misty blurriness of her eyesight and her own fear.
 For ten years she’d been fighting to live, and for nine of those years it seemed bad luck was determined to kill her where her father had failed.
 If it was bad luck, as her brother, Burke, was wont to say.
 “Goddammit, Angel.” A new voice, filled with anger and disgust, rose amid the others that had arrived at the site where Angel’s truck had nearly gone over a sheer cliff after the tire had exploded. “What the bloody fuck is going on here? That was no convenient blowout. That tire was shot out, and you and I both know you’re experienced enough to see it.”
 Isabeau froze, her fingers tightening on the handle of the cane she carried as the accusation drifted to her over the distance between the truck she sat in and Angel’s truck a good fifty feet away.
 She was guessing the unknown male was one of Angel’s brothers, most likely the eldest brother, who they called Tracker. She’d met the younger one,