Ultimate Fear
by Kristine Mason
BLURB
When a deranged mother's grief drives
her to replace her dead son over and over, obsession leads to murder...
Chicago detective Jessica Donavan will
never stop looking for her missing daughter. Her obsession has destroyed her
marriage, but the search is the only thing that helps keep her sane and her
mind off of everything she’s lost—her husband and her baby girl. When she
uncovers a string of unsolved disappearances and reappearances of a number of
baby boys, Jessica turns to her soon to be ex, Dante Russo, a former Navy SEAL
turned investigator for the private agency, CORE, to help her fit together the
pieces in this perplexing puzzle. But as Dante helps her, she realizes just how
much she still craves his support—and his touch.
Dante is still in love with his wife
and would do anything to have her back in his life again. He’s been miserable
since she left him to deal with the grief over their daughter’s abduction,
never understanding how much he grieves as well. When Jessica tells him about
the case she’s working, he jumps at the chance to take part in her
investigation. He's hoping not only to save their marriage and ease his
personal pain over the loss of their daughter, but to stop a serial kidnapper
from taking another victim.
Excerpt
(Hero’s
POV)
“Here,” Jessica said, entering the dining room
and shoving a stack of papers at him. “I signed the divorce papers. Now that
you have what you wanted, you can leave.”
Dante
glanced at the papers, his skin crawling at the sight of them. “Throw them
away. They’re worthless.”
“Excuse
me?”
“After
you left, I did some research. Illinois is a no-fault state.”
She
tossed the papers on the card table and folded her arms across her chest.
“Meaning?”
“Meaning,
after the first two years since you started this, all I needed to do was submit
a document to the Court and request a Final Decree on the divorce. Since I
didn’t know I could do that, and since it’s been over three years, the Court
will dismiss our case as inactive. Now one of us has to re-file.”
He’d
expected anger, but swore she looked relieved. His chest filled with hope. For
years she’d dragged her feet and had avoided finalizing their divorce. Last
night, when he’d crowded her against the kitchen counter and brought up whether
or not she still loved him, her eyes had filled with tears and her face had
crumpled in agony. Yet she’d said nothing. She hadn’t told him she loved him,
but she also hadn’t said she wanted the divorce finalized. Instead, she’d tried
to turn his words against him, to the point where he had been the one demanding
a divorce he hadn’t wanted. Now they were still legally stuck together unless
one of them made the move to re-file. And it sure as hell wouldn’t be him. Call
him a fool or a glutton for punishment, he no longer cared. He was still in
love with his wife.
About the Author
I didn’t pick up my first romance novel until I was
in my late twenties. Immediately hooked, I read a bazillion books before
deciding to write one of my own. After the birth of my first son I needed
something to keep my mind from turning to mush, and Sesame Street wasn’t
cutting it. While that first book will never see the light of day, something
good came from writing it. I realized my passion and found a career I love.
When I’m not writing contemporary romances and
dark, romantic suspense novels (or reading them!) I’m chasing after my four
kids and two neurotic dogs.
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