What does archaeology student Danielle Herring discover in the shadows of her family tree? Corruption, murder, sex, and a serial killer ring. She’s the only biological heir to an estate, things should be simple, right? She’s accompanied by the family attorney, Stephen Briggs, on what she thinks is a quick will-reading in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

She doesn’t count on one of the conditions of the will including a hot-blooded—make that a HOT!—Veterinarian she has to share a home with in order to claim her inheritance. 

Things couldn’t get worse, could they? 

This pulse-racing, emotionally charged novel proves some deep-seated secrets and desires are buried so deep in the soil that bringing them to the surface requires Truth or Consequences.

Note: This book contains sexual content, adult situations, and profanity.
Truth or Consequences is created by Faith Justice, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Truth or Consequences

     Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. -Lord Byron


     Multi-colored, hard-backed plastic chairs line the walls. All of the furniture is bolted down to the buffed, shiny tiled floor. I follow Drake to the hospital information station. The receptionist's desk is framed in a clear plexiglass with an amber tint.


     "Yes, a man was brought in with a gunshot wound to the shoulder." Drake leans down. "The last name is Shaffer. Paul Shaffer.


     "Ahh," she says, "let me see. Are you family?"


     "I'm sorry, Sir, but only family is allowed with the patient."


     "I'm family." I blurt the words out, not sure where the words came from.


     The middle-aged woman narrows her eyes, then she purses her lips into a thin line of red lipstick.


Chapter 66: I'm Family