She was the protector, not the protected…
Former TSP Homicide detective Melody Beck had spent her life standing between the evil in the world and her younger sisters. When one of those sisters is attacked and nearly killed Mel would do whatever it took to find the answers they sought.
Even if those answers led straight back to the wealthiest family in Texas. To a man some said was responsible for the worst slaughter in Finley Creek history.
And the one man she’d tried for eighteen months to forget…
The world said he was the son of a killer…
But Houghton Barratt knew his father was innocent. It had to be a setup, and he was going to prove that. The only hope he had of finding his father before the TSP—and protecting everything he had worked toward for decades—lay with a former homicide detective with a serious chip on her shoulder.
The woman he had never forgotten.
But as Houghton schemes and manipulates to get Mel back in his arms where she belongs, the real mastermind responsible for the Marshall Murders is getting closer.
Only this time he’s focused on the sisters she’d do anything to keep safe, and the woman Houghton had vowed to protect…
