Jake Chandler is a struggling small-town Florida lawyer, and his life is falling apart. His ex-wife makes seeing his daughter difficult, his boyfriend Noah may be cheating on him, and his money woes are growing. Jake hopes that a new murder defense case will help with his money woes, but his ex-wife Elena is the prosecutor. It’s bad enough she has to fight with him over custody of their daughter. Now she wants nothing more than to beat him in the courtroom, too.<br><br>And then people around him start dying.<br><br>First, an ex-lover gets his brains blown out while he and Jake have coffee. The danger comes even closer. Then Jake meets handsome FBI agent Xavier, who is investigating the crimes surrounding him. Can Jake trust this new man in his life? Is Xavier who he says he is? Or does his involvement put Jake and those he loves in even more danger?

Love and Murder

Ivan walked to his dresser and found some underwear. “Now you sure you don’t want to join me in the shower?”


I shook my head and sat, feeling groggy. Ivan walked away from his dresser, leaving it open. I walked to where my shirt lay next to the dresser, when I spotted a glint of metal. A gun. I glanced at his valet.


His uniform was pressed, with the uniform shirt hanging. Ivan’s gun—a Beretta—hung on the holster. Sloppy. He should have secured his Beretta in a gun safe.


Ivan whistled in the bathroom, behind the partially closed door. Then the water ran in the bathtub. I stood there and waited. When it sounded like there was a change of the rhythm of the water, I pulled the drawer more to get a better look.


Not a Beretta but a Glock, like Noah’s.


Chapter 32