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Chapters (67)
  1. Contents
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONETHE EXTREMES
  6. 1
  7. 2
  8. 3
  9. 4
  10. 5
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  12. 7
  13. 8
  14. 9
  15. 10
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  17. 12
  18. 13
  19. 14
  20. 15
  21. 16
  22. PART TWOSOMETHING BAD
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  24. 18
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  27. 21
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  31. 25
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  33. 27
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  36. 30
  37. PART THREECHAYLA
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  51. PART FOURHIT AND RUN
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  66. EPILOGUE
  67. AUTHOR’S NOTE

Tarla turned away with his badge still clutched in her hand. She looked as if she would rather open the patio door and jump than open her mouth.

‘I had no idea what I was seeing,’ she said. ‘I didn’t give it any thought at all. It was only afterward that I wondered. I never said anything, but I’ve always wondered about it.’

‘Was this on Labor Day?’

She shook her head. ‘It was two days before.’

‘Mother, what did you see?’

‘That man,’ Tarla replied. ‘Frank Macy. I recognized him. It was in the garden of the estate, near a road coming out of the orange groves. I was taking a walk, and they didn’t see me. They had no idea I was there. I saw an exchange of money between them. It was a large amount of money.’

Cab closed his eyes. He felt as if the pieces had finally come together. Two days before Labor Day, Drew paid Macy. This wasn’t for drugs. This was for murder. Drew paid Frank Macy to kill Birch Fairmont, and Macy chose to make it look like an act of domestic terrorism. And the dominoes began to fall.

‘I wish you’d told me before,’ he said quietly. ‘This changes everything. Drew may be dead, but Frank Macy isn’t. He’s alive, and he’s dangerous.’

Tarla shook her head. She looked stricken. ‘You don’t understand.’

‘What?’

‘It wasn’t Drew,’ she said. ‘I didn’t see Drew pay the money to Frank Macy. It was Diane.’

36

Peach left her T-Bird in Seminole Park, the way she always did. It was three in the morning, and with each hour, the storm got worse.

Cab Bolton had said almost nothing when he left her at the motel in Lake Wales. No explanations. No excuses. I have to get back to Tampa right now. You can stay if you’d like. The room’s paid for. Then he sped away in his Corvette as if his entire life depended on it.

Peach had no desire to stay the night in Lake Wales. Instead, she went home. She’d followed Justin’s trail, but now it had led her back where she started. She still had only one name circled in her brain, like a target. Frank Macy. He was closer than ever to the heart of everything. Somehow, Justin had made the mistake of getting in Macy’s way.

Then she realized she had one more name that troubled her. The name she didn’t understand at all. Alison.