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Sheriff Cord Arbutten's wife is dead, an apparent suicide, but his grown
son claims she was murdered -- by the Sheriff. Rand Arbutten, an attorney
who hates his father, vows he's going to prove it. When it comes to light
that she was killed with the Sheriff's old service revolver right in the middle
of a nasty divorce, the Governor suggests that Cord think about stepping
down. Suddenly, the Sheriff is faced with losing everything, possibly
including his freedom.
Investigative reporter Allie Grainger gets involved when her best friend
Sheryl, a Sheriff's Deputy, begs her to help. Allie barely knows the Sheriff,
but she knows that Sheryl greatly respects him and that her deceased
aunt, who worked for him for over twenty years, believed he was an
honorable man. That's enough for her.
Repeated clashes with the Sheriff's son only make Allie more determined
to discover the truth. Rand sets out to block Allie at every turn. When
anger doesn't work, he turns on the charm, charm that gets to Allie a lot
more than she's willing to admit.
Sidney Finch, a Sheriff's Deputy who idolizes the Sheriff, doesn't use
charm to impede her investigation. He uses naked threats. Allie has to ask
herself who he's trying to protect -- the Sheriff or himself? She isn't sure
how far Sidney will go to stop her, but since he has a hair-trigger temper
and carries a gun, she absolutely doesn't want to find out.
Then Rand Arbutten agrees to work with Allie instead of against her. She
isn't sure of his motives, but she'll take any help she can get. With her
dead aunt whispering encouragement in her ear and Sheryl egging her on,
Allie sets out to discover what really happened the day Jean Arbutten died.

ISBN#: 978 15914 62637 Multi-Media Publications, Inc.
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