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Blurb:
Four women have been found dead in the outskirts of a small
Wisconsin town. The only witness, clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these
brutal murders through violent nightmares and hellish visions. The local
sheriff, who believes in Celeste’s abilities and wants to rid their peaceful
community of a killer, enlists the help on an old friend, Ian Scott, owner of a
private criminal investigation agency, CORE. Because of Ian’s dark history with
Celeste’s family, a history she knows nothing about, he sends his top
criminalist, former FBI agent John Kain to investigate.
John doesn’t believe in Celeste’s mystic hocus-pocus, or in her
visions of the murders. But just when he’s certain they’ve solved the crimes,
with the use of science and evidence, more dead bodies are discovered. Could
this somehow be the work of the same killer or were they dealing with a
copycat? To catch a vicious murderer, the skeptical criminalist reluctantly
turns to the sensual psychic for help. Yet with each step closer to finding the
killer, John finds himself one step closer to losing his heart.
John Kain knelt, resting his forearm
on his thigh as he studied one of the four victims. Bruises marred her flesh,
her inner thighs, her face and chest, while her mouth gaped open as if she’d
died screaming. The thin line of purple running around her neck was telling.
She’d been strangled. Beaten, raped, then strangled. Just like the other three.
Roy, the sheriff who’d reminded him
of Paul Bunyan, minus the ax and blue ox, came up beside him. “What are you
thinking?”
John stood, then scanned the area,
the dense woods, the highway where the deputies had set up a road block. The smooth
asphalt was littered with police cruisers, several CSU vans, and maybe a
half-dozen deputies. “I can’t be sure, but I spoke with...Mitchell?”
“Yeah.” The sheriff nodded. “He’s
the lead with Eau Claire’s CSU team.”
“Mitchell tentatively confirmed your
suspicions, but will know more during the autopsies.”
“Shit.”
“My exact thought. You’re in a heap
of it.” And he’d just plowed through his own pile in Chicago, the stench still
lingering, still fresh.
When he’d joined CORE, he’d known he
would see just as much as he had when he’d been with the FBI, but Ian had
promised downtime in between cases, something he’d never had with the Bureau.
Something he needed now. What he’d witnessed while working with the Chicago PD
and FBI Field Office would haunt him for a lifetime. And as pissed as he was
about having a mini vacation dangled in front of him, then quickly pulled away
with one simple phone call, he still had a job to do.
Author
bio and links:
I
didn’t pick up my first romance novel until I was in my late twenties.
Immediately hooked, I read a bazillion books before deciding to write one of my
own. After the birth of my first son I needed something to keep my mind from
turning to mush, and Sesame Street wasn’t cutting it. While that first book
will never see the light of day, something good had come from writing it. I
realized my passion, and had found a career that I love.
When
I’m not writing contemporary romances and dark, romantic suspense novels (or
reading them!) I’m chasing after my four kids and two neurotic dogs.
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