By Rachel Butler
From her delivery because the love baby of a wealthy Southern relatives to her formative years at the streets, attractive murderer Selena McCaffrey had one choice: live to tell the tale. Now she desires to placed the prior in the back of her and begin a brand new existence with the fellow she loves…but her enemies produce other plans. somebody has positioned out a half-million-dollar agreement on Selena’s life—and of the world’s such a lot elite assassins have taken the activity. As Selena and murder detective Tony Ceola race from Tulsa to Atlanta to Alabama, what they become aware of will swap their lives ceaselessly: a hot mystery approximately Selena’s previous, approximately her mother’s death—and approximately how shut her worst enemy fairly is….
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So what was Tony’s plan? If he could find a truly safe place to stash Selena—a cell for one, buried six feet under the jail sounded good—he could borrow Charlize’s plan for his own. He was good enough at tracking down people who didn’t want to be found that he’d had the best record ever on the fugitive apprehension squad. He would make it his one goal in life to find Damon Long and stop him. Kill him. In cold blood if necessary. Two months ago, the idea never would have occurred to him. When Long’s murder spree had started in Tulsa, people had called Long a vigilante.
When she’d bought the building twelve years ago and turned it into a small café, her only experience with the restaurant business had been dining out. She hadn’t cared whether she made a success of the place. She had merely been looking for something to do between keeping an eye on William’s business and taking care of William’s hits. If she’d cared, would she have been so successful? she wondered as she chatted pleasantly with the mayor and his wife, who were sharing a table near the fountain with a local senator and her husband.
Come on,” she said, then cut between shoppers to the hair salon across the way. Tony caught her hand when she would have walked inside. “What are you—” He glanced at the nearest stylist, scissors in hand, and his eyes widened. ” “But—” He liked her hair. She knew that. He liked to tangle his hands in it when they kissed, liked the way it tickled along his body when she made love to him, liked to stroke it when he soothed her. ” She freed herself, went to the desk, and asked for the next available stylist.