Trigger

Judy Mason doesn't want to be who she is now. She wants to be who she was before Steven Harter and before Simon Perry. She wants to be at her company full of ideas and energy and hope. When she was her, before she gave herself away to Steven and then to Simon, she was strong and vibrant and her step was sure and steady. She used to spit fire and face down lions unafraid and confident she’d win. They made her weak and dependent. They destroyed who she was and then left her -- broken, alone, shallow and empty.

There are all kinds of triggers. The most dangerous isn't the one on a gun. It’s the sore spot in your heart, irrational logic flaming your mind, or unjustifiable cruelty shattering your soul that makes you pull the trigger of a gun.

Judy was sixteen when her mother was beaten to death by her Dad and brothers. She's been on her own and running from them ever since. The only way to survive was to become stronger, faster and more skilled than anyone who threatened her. At 25, Judy is a killed boxer, third-level black belt in Kempo-Karate and deadly accurate with all firearms. Judy's trainer says she is a lethal weapon.

To be physically adept is only half of what it takes to have control her of her life and survive. Financial independence is the other half. Quietly and under the radar of unwanted and unnecessary attention, Judy built Stalwart Company from nothing. Stalwart is her dream family. The people who work for her like her and she likes them, if she didn't they wouldn't be working for Stalwart. Big loving families are better she believes and so she keeps growing Stalwart.

Recently chosen as entrepreneur of the year by a major business magazine, Judy and Stalwart have been noticed and now they're a target. The threat she’s been working so hard to prepare for has found her at last and she’s caught in a way she never prepared for nor imagined. To survive has always been the focus of her life. Her battle seems hopeless, why can’t she stop fighting?

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