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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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“Okay.”

“You’re not going to get in trouble, are you?”

“No.”

“Okay.”

“Let’s make supper.”

“What about the truck?”

“I’m done. Good as new.” He put his arm around Ricky’s shoulder as they got up and walked toward the house. Javier whistled for the dog, who slowly rose and trotted after them.

Ricky felt safe for the first time in three months.

Chapter Thirteen

Stanley Grant would be released at one thirty that afternoon, after he was fitted with an ankle monitor. Marie was staying at the courthouse with him, then Sean would escort the two of them to a hotel room that Max had reserved for Grant.

There was a threat to Grant, but Sean didn’t know how serious it was, or even why.

Max had given Sean a key to her hotel room so he could work from there and have access to all her research. She’d only been in town for twenty-four hours, but already her makeshift office was complete with an up-to-date timeline and sticky notes asking questions.

If Grant embezzled 2.1M why is there no paper trail until after V’s murder?

Where are Grant’s gambling losses? Who and what bets? Need verification.

If Grant didn’t kill V, who and why?

Max must have stopped here after the interview at the courthouse, because she’d put a sticky note with the description of the large Hispanic male with a scar on his hand and added Marie’s car accident in the timeline. But for now, Sean focused on her most recent addition:

Who is Harrison Monroe?—Rogan.

Sean booted up his laptop and logged into the RCK database that he and the former RCK IT manager had created to pool all public databases into a central location. He limited the search fields to Harrison Monroes in Texas. There were eleven. He then narrowed to a hundred-mile radius of San Antonio and came up with three. He could expand out if these came up dry, but it made sense that if Victoria Mills was working with someone—a real buyer or a straw buyer—the individual would be local.

Then he read over the basic background reports that the RCK system generated. Monroe, Harrison A. was in his seventies, a veteran and widower, and lived in a small house near Lackland Air Force Base. Three kids, four grandkids, lived within his means. Sean kept that individual on the list because a terrific scam was to use a real, yet unsuspecting, individual to buy and sell land. The purpose was primarily tax evasion or money laundering, but there were other reasons to use a false identity or a straw buyer.