"I took the path God had for me. It seems wrong and sad and hard, but God chose to be with me through it, not take me out of it."
Just when Dry Oaks, California, Chief of Police Hanna Keyes thought her plate could not get piled up any higher . . . it does. After eye-witnessing a private plane crash, Hanna learns the pilot may have been dead or dying before his plane ever hit the ground. Unrelated to the crash, a killer lurks in the shadows, luring women to their death after scamming them out of money through an online dating site. The most personal unexpected situation was one that Hanna never thought possible, a reason to meet her father . . . a convicted killer, Joe Keyes had been incarcerated her entire life, and now he was dying. Oh yes, and then there was Jared, her first love was back in town.
Rife with multiple characters and competing story threads, both past and present, it took numerous chapters to settle in and prioritize what was really happening in the small community of Dry Oaks. As significant indicators surface, the storyteller's ingenuity emerges, revealing the power of the truth, with one final unexpected twist.
Suspicion reigns supreme in this inspirational suspense!
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Thirty years after a federal agent and two suspects disappeared in the wilderness, the case is cold, and they’ve never been found. Now their suspected killer is about to go free. But is the truth really what it seems?
In Dry Oaks, California, Chief of Police Hanna Keyes has long believed her father, Joe, is a murderer, justly imprisoned. When she’s told he’s dying and is being given compassionate release from prison, she wants nothing to do with him. But taking him in might be Hanna’s one shot at cracking the cold case, so she reluctantly agrees to oversee his care.
Joe’s arrival in Dry Oaks seems to set off a chain reaction of crimes. Then an infamous true-crime podcaster comes sniffing for information, and Hanna’s first love, Jared, shows up just when she least needs the distraction. As Hanna tries to convince Joe to reveal what he knows about the missing persons, evidence in the cold case surfaces at a suspiciously rapid pace . . . suggesting there’s more to the murders than people thought.
With Joe’s strength failing, Hanna and her colleagues look for answers, not only about the past but also about recent criminal dealings in Dry Oaks. As the puzzle pieces start to fit together, it becomes clear that there’s a sinister plot at work, far more wide-reaching than anyone suspected, and that someone is desperate to silence the truth at any cost.
Stand-alone contemporary romantic suspense novel
Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Police drama
Cold case murder mystery
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