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Chapters (48)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-one
  27. Chapter Twenty-two
  28. Chapter Twenty-three
  29. Chapter Twenty-four
  30. Chapter Twenty-five
  31. Chapter Twenty-six
  32. Chapter Twenty-seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Chapter Thirty-one
  37. Chapter Thirty-two
  38. Chapter Thirty-three
  39. Chapter Thirty-four
  40. Chapter Thirty-five
  41. Chapter Thirty-six
  42. Chapter Thirty-seven
  43. Chapter Thirty-eight
  44. Chapter Thirty-nine
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Max ended the call and closed her eyes, smiling.

I love you, Ryan.

Chapter Eighteen

WEDNESDAY MORNING

On the drive out to the Youngs’ house in Kerr County, Lucy filled Nate in on what Max had learned. He was silent for several minutes.

“Okay, what?”

“I’m just glad she’s not on a damn ride-along with us,” he muttered.

“Then I would have to clear this with Rachel.”

Nate glanced over at her. “I don’t want her in this car. I don’t trust her. I know you and Sean are friends with her, but we’ve already been run off the road, we have unknown people tracking our progress, and we can’t trust the original investigators.”

He sounded unusually passionate. “Nate—I wouldn’t do anything without your consent.”

“You should have called me last night. So I could hear the woman firsthand. Ask her some questions.”

“I didn’t know she was coming over until she got there—but you’re right. I should have had you there.” She hoped Nate wasn’t too angry with her. “I’m already going to be in hot water when it comes out, but I want to keep it between us for at least today, until Max can connect Harrison Monroe to Denise Albright and give us a viable reason to talk to him. I went over all the files that Laura gave us and his name is nowhere.”

“He may not be connected to her at all.”

“They went to college together. All of them. Max doesn’t think any of them are innocent, that they were all involved in some sort of white collar scam.”

“She thinks they all knew about Victoria’s murder? About the slaughter of an entire family?”

“I don’t know. The way Max explained it—Victoria, and possibly the others, believed that Denise left the country. But when the bones were uncovered, they would figure out that she hadn’t—and then possibly go to the police with information that could lead to the killer. It’s a bit convoluted right now, to be honest, but I see what Max is getting at. And consider this: If you and your friends were involved in a scam and you were the only one with a family and children to protect, you were the weak link. The one most likely to turn state’s evidence or balk at doing something that crosses a moral line. I don’t know.”

“I think I follow.”