Investigating 101

by Debra Webb

  “Find her,” Victoria ordered. “I want A.J. on her tail now.”

  “Let me take care of this,” Nicole insisted. “I’m the one who recruited her. I can find her.”

  Victoria moved her head side to side. “The decision to hire Gabrielle was made by committee. End of discussion. A. J. Braddock will take this one. You’ll have your hands full with securing our systems more fully.” Victoria reached for the phone. “You bring A.J. up to speed and I’ll warn Sloan.”

  Nicole looked as if she might argue the point, but she obeyed Victoria’s order.

  Victoria held on to the receiver a moment before she entered the number she knew by heart. Whatever Gabrielle was up to…she didn’t have all the facts. And, if vengeance was on her mind, she had no idea who she was dealing with.

  Trevor Sloan didn’t play games…he played for keeps.

  The last person who threatened his family had paid the ultimate price.

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  ISBN978-1-55254-435-8

  INVESTIGATING 101

  Copyright © 2006 by Debra Webb

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  About the Author

  At the age of nine, Debra began writing stories for the characters who lived in her too-vivid imagination. By 18 she had turned wife, mother, and career woman, leaving her writing behind. But those imaginary characters just wouldn’t go away.

  For the next 18 years she did everything from managing a Captain D’s seafood restaurant to holding an executive secretarial position at NASA, while the characters and their stories continued to traipse around inside her head. Eventually they just had to come out and Debra began the journey that would take her to where her heart had been all along—writing romance.

  Debra was born in Alabama, but now lives in Tennessee. Her journey, however, wasn’t a simple trek northward to the Volunteer state. First, Debra, her husband, and oldest daughter did a little traipsing of their own. From Texas to Berlin, Germany, Debra followed her husband’s military assignments. Finally landing in Tennessee, they had their second daughter and settled for the rest of their lives in a small community they fell in love with on sight.

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