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

“Yeah. If I was honest with Elena, maybe she wouldn’t hate my guts today, and we wouldn’t be fighting about our kid as much. I couldn’t blame her. I cheated on her, lied to her.”


“You can’t change the past, Jake.” Xavier shook his head. “When you were in the club, and wanted to go after Ivan, I have to be honest it wasn’t just my concern for you in confronting Ivan.”


“So you kissedme? I mean it wasn’t a ploy just to stop me?”


Xavier nodded. “You don’t even remember the first time we met and kissed, do you?”


“I remember meeting you after I looked at your Facebook photos. Moot court competitions. Finals that took place at UVA. But you’ve changed a lot physically. And, I don’t remember kissing you, I think I would recall that.”


“Well, going to Quantico changed me. You can’t start out as an agent in the Bureau without getting into shape. Got my hair cut shorter. And, yeah, I got Lasik done. Do you remember partying after your team won, and our team placed fourth?”


Chapter 55