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His guilt tore them apart

Can the truth set them free?

Ex-cop Adam Kirk has never forgiven himself for his partner’s murder. Neither has Amanda Bonner, the daughter left behind. But when new clues into the crime surface, Adam and Amanda form an unlikely partnership, which becomes their only chance to achieve justice. Duty soon leads to passion...and attempts on Amanda’s life. Will Adam lose the woman he’s come to love before he can expose the killer?

Introduction

“It’s okay,” Amanda heard him say. “You’re out.”

“I...”

“You’re bleeding,” he said suddenly, sharply.

She realized it hadn’t been rainwater she’d felt dripping down her face. And then Adam was touching her cheek. It was so cold out, or she was in shock because just that touch felt almost unbearably warm. Hot, even. It sent a jolt through her that brought her back to her senses.

“The car,” she moaned, hating that she was leaning on him but unable to quite find her footing. Even as she looked, the rain was dousing the flames, yet she could see how badly the car was damaged.

Adam was looking at Amanda’s head now, gently pushing her hair back to inspect. “Look at me.” She didn’t want to look at him, not him. “Amanda, look at me. Forget who I am for a moment. You hit your head and I need to see your eyes.”

She looked up then. Odd. She didn’t remember his eyes being that dark. They were the same color as the sky, gray, stormy.

And worried.

That was sweet. She almost smiled. Then she remembered who he was.

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Be sure to check out the rest of the books in this miniseries.

Cutter’s Code: A clever and mysterious canine helps a group of secret operatives crack the case

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Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

When writing a long (this is book eleven!) series like Cutter’s Code, there are always secondary characters that stick in your mind. Characters who, when you finish the book, make you think, “Hmm. Maybe someday...”

Amanda Bonner was one of those. A fatal shooting brought her into the life of Quinn Foxworth years ago, even before his own life was turned around by Hayley Cole and her dog, Cutter. And I always intended to go back and see how she was doing after the night that fractured her life. When I did, I discovered that a lot more had happened that night than I’d ever realized.

So now that clever canine Cutter has made it clear she has a problem, the Foxworth Foundation, and perhaps only the Foxworth Foundation—and Cutter—can help her. And it brings back into her life the very man she has blamed all this time for the shooting that destroyed her world.