Hard to Kill

When Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear.

All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune…or die trying. Still recovering in Germany from the blast that cut short her Army career, Kellen expects a quiet discharge, not a summons to General Lawrence Slater’s office.

Deciphering an illuminated World War II diary promises half of a museum reward, provided she lives long enough to collect it.

When an obituary exposes that the journal’s owner was killed by friendly fire, Kellen discovers someone inside the general’s quiet house will murder to keep the prize. Unearthing the lost canvas in the Bavarian mountains should be a triumph, yet trusting the wrong officer could prove fatal.

New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off her Cape Charade suspense series with Hard to Kill, a short story of treasure, treachery…and murder.
Code Breaking: Chester Roy’s wartime journal conceals its secret not in text, but in layered miniatures that cast telling shadows under lamplight.Forced Proximity: Stationed inside General Slater’s Bavarian residence to study the diary, Kellen must work with an aide-de-camp who watches her every move.Art Heist: A missing masterpiece hidden since 1945 sends an armed recovery team into the treacherous, subterranean depths of the Altdorf Forest.Found Family: Haunted by the Kuwait ambush that wounded her unit, Kellen takes the high-risk assignment to help fund a life-changing prosthesis for her injured corporal.Also by This Author: Wrong Alibi, Point Last Seen and What Doesn’t Kill Her.