All Clare Lehane wanted was a new start. When her problem with pills costs her her job in Chicago, she moves to Money Creek in...
All Clare Lehane wanted was a new start. When her problem with pills costs her her job in Chicago, she moves to Money Creek in rural Illinois to take up her legal career in a small firm and remake her life. But old habits die hard, and she soon finds a drug dealer, Henry, who turns out to be the son of her new boss. Henry blackmails Clare into helping him launder drug money, but his plans don't stop there: he intends to make her part of his cartel.
Everything changes when Clare goes to a party with Henry and his associates. While she's in the bathroom, the rest of the party is ambushed and killed. She flees the scene of the crime and calls in the murders anonymously. If anyone finds out she was there and saw the killer as they were leaving, she'd lose everything--the job she loves, her law license, and especially her burgeoning relationship with Freya Saucedo, a member of the local drug task force.
Clare is living a lie that runs deep, and telling the truth may come at a devastating price.
Author: Anne Laughlin
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781635557954
About the AuthorLaughlin, Anne: - Anne Laughlin is the author of seven books for Bold Strokes Books. She is a four-time winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society's Goldie award (
Veritas, The Collectors, Runaway, and
The Acquittal). Three of her novels have been short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award. Two have been produced as audiobooks (
The Collectors and
The Acquittal).
Anne's short fiction has appeared in a wide range of publications. Her story "It Only Occurred to Me Lately" was a finalist in the Saints & Sinners Short Fiction Contest. She has attended several residencies including Ragdale and The Vermont Studio C enter. In 2008 she was named an Emerging Writer by the Lambda Literary Society, with a second designation in 2014.
Anne lives in her hometown of Chicago with her wife, Linda Braasch.
