by SUE FINEMAN
With his family in Texas, Chance had thought about selling his law practice and moving there. Abe Rosenbloom had made an offer once before. Maybe he was still interested.
As the police finished in the office, Chance called Abe. “Are you still interested in buying my law practice?”
“Of course,” Abe replied. “Do I get you in the deal?”
“No, I’m moving to Texas. Do you want the furniture and office equipment?”
“I’ll take everything, Chance.”
They negotiated a price they could both live with, and after the phone call, Chance called a moving company to box up his files and take them to Abe’s storage facility, along with the furniture and office equipment.
McBride said, “Jacobs is on his way. He’ll follow you home.”
“Okay. Where’s Baylee? Did she leave already?”
“She’s with Jacobs. Chance, I’m not sure we can protect you, and if that stubborn woman reporter hangs around the city—“
“I’ll take her with me.” If she’d go. He wasn’t an expert marksman like his siblings, but he did know how to shoot a gun. She’d be safer with him than in Tacoma.
“Why don’t you and Baylee go up to my cabin at Snoqualmie Pass?” McBride handed Chance a key. “Do you remember how to get there?”
“Not exactly.” Chance had been there with his father and McBride’s son the winter before Dad was killed. That was years ago.
McBride gave Chance directions to the cabin, and Chance nodded his thanks.
No sense in luring Blackburn to Texas if he had another choice. The cabin should be fine as long as Baylee didn’t tell the world where they were. After the police arrested Blackburn, he’d bring her back to Tacoma, then drive to Texas to be with his family.
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Baylee’s editor had given her a stern lecture before she left the office. He said he didn’t want to have to print a story about her murder. Maybe he and McBride were right. Maybe she should go before that monster came after her.
Chance wouldn’t stay in Tacoma after finding his office destroyed, and his family needed him in Texas. She had no family left except an aunt in Houston. She could stay with one of her friends in Tacoma, but she didn’t want to bring trouble down on them.
Officer Jacobs followed her to her apartment. The apartment door stood open, and a jack of clubs lay just inside the door. Baylee turned cold. If she’d had any doubts about being on Black Jack’s list, the card did away with them.
The officer also found a card on her pillow, a queen of spades, with a kitchen knife anchoring it to the pillow she’d slept on last night.
“Okay, Jack,” she said on a shaky breath. “You have my attention now.”
She snapped several pictures, and when the police were finished, she packed her bags. Time to leave town, before she ended up dead.
She’d always hated the sight of blood. Especially her own.
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THE GREGORY FAMILY SERIES
by Sue Fineman
ON THE RUN – the macho brother
Former DEA agent Adam Gregory tried to get Neen Summers out of the drug lord’s house before the raid three years ago, but he was stabbed in the back by one of his own people. Neen has been on the run since the raid, staying one step ahead of the drug lord’s hired killers. Greg is desperate to find the dirty agent who stabbed him and protect Neen from the killers. He finally finds her in the cemetery, visiting her mother’s grave, but the killers have spotted her, too.
Greg takes Neen on a wild ride across the country, protecting her from the killers, but not from his love. Neen tries to keep her distance, but the macho cop is hard to resist, and he’s determined to make her love him again.
ON THE LAM – the wounded brother
With his shattered elbow, a reminder of the war in Iraq, Bo Gregory has enough on his hands without getting involved in someone else’s problems. He doesn’t need a battered wife and her kid living over the bar, especially when he and his brother are trying to renovate the building.
Callie Caldwell left her abusive husband, the big, bad sheriff of Caledonia County, Texas, and filed for divorce, but the sheriff has stolen her ranch and tricked a judge into giving him custody of her son. Broke and scared, she desperately needs Bo’s help. Bo wants to know why the sheriff wants Callie’s ranch so much he’d force her to stay in a loveless marriage. Unable to fight his growing love for Callie and her little boy, Bo searches for answers.
ON THE HUNT – the rejected sister
Mia Gregory walks away from her job as a police officer in Tacoma and unknowingly steps into more danger in Clover Hills. She knows FBI Special Agent Dave Montgomery, her brother’s best friend, wouldn’t be in disguise in the little mountain town without good reason.
Three girls are missing, and the local police refuse to get involved. One girl turns up dead and one is found alive, and the search for the third girl intensifies. But someone not only wants the FBI out of Clover Hills, they want Mia dead.
Years ago, Mia had a huge crush on Dave and he still has the power to stir her senses. It would be so easy to fall in love with him, but she can’t allow it to happen. With a killer on the loose and lives in jeopardy, it would be foolish to go beyond friendship.
ON THE EDGE – the troubled brother
Chance Gregory is still mourning the loss of his ex-wife, the mother of his children, when her killer kills again and leaves an explicit message written in blood in Chance’s law office. The killer also left a knife in Baylee Patterson’s pillow. She’s a local newspaper reporter who wrote some not-so-nice things about the killer. Chance had a one-night affair with Baylee after his divorce became final, and he’s determined to protect her as he wasn’t able to protect his ex-wife.
When the detective in charge of the murder cases advises them to leave town, they go together, hoping the police find the killer before he finds them. The more time Baylee spends with Chance, the more she wants the one thing she knows she can’t have. Chance Gregory.
Books by Sue Fineman
On the Run
On the Lam
On the Hunt
On the Edge
The Mitchell Money
Ginger’s Grief
Maggie’s Man
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sue’s Blog
Sue Fineman is a grumpy old lady who lives with an even grumpier old man in a small town in Washington state. She writes romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction and light paranormal romance novels about the people who live in her warped mind.
Although she doesn’t write comedy, there’s a little humor in everything she writes. It helps balance out the grumpiness in her life.
The Mitchell Money will be available in April, 2011, from The Wild Rose Press. By romance standards, the characters are older, but not too old to enjoy each other in every way. Gary’s old blue truck is on the book cover. Find out why Rachel calls the beat-up pickup “lovely” and won’t let him talk on his cell phone when he’s driving.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
On the Hunt ~ Blurb
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
On the Edge ~ Excerpt
Gregory Series Info
Backlist
About the Author
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