Publisher Description
Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-month-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer's next target--nor that she'd have to work alongside an old flame.
After he almost killed a child, former FBI sniper Lincoln Steele couldn't bring himself to fire a gun, which had deadly and unforeseen consequences for his best friend. Crushed beneath a load of guilt, Linc is working at Melrose Estate as an interpretive ranger. But as danger closes in on Ainsley during her murder investigation, Linc will have to find the courage to protect her. The only question is, will it be too little, too late?
Award-winning author Patricia Bradley continues her Natchez Trace Park Rangers series with a story about how good must prevail when evil just won't quit.
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Bradley continues her Natchez Trace Park Rangers series with a layered second-chance romance. Ranger Ainsley Beaumont returns to her hometown to investigate the death of a local girl. But after she shows up and discovers her great-aunt, Cora, unconscious, her ex, Lincoln Steele, arrives as part of the emergency response team. Cora starts rambling about a missing journal, and it's Lincoln who makes the connection with a book Cora's writing about the Beaumonts' ancestors. As Ainsley and Lincoln team up to look into the suspicious circumstances of Cora's accident, they become closer and begin to talk about their past—just as prayer comes back into Ainsley's life. Then, Lincoln finds out that an escaped convict is after Ainsley. Through dramatic turns and family confrontations, Ainsley and Lincoln close both investigations, while Cora also finds what she's been searching for: the recovered journal posthumously proves an ancestor accused of murder was innocent. Bradley unwraps a mystery of the past through a modern investigation that mends relationships, strengthens faith, and offers a couple a renewed chance at love. There's much to dig into for fans of crime fiction tinged with faith.
Customer Reviews
SUPER ENDING TO THIS SERIES!
Author Patricia Bradley has released the finale in her Natchez Trace Park Series and all I can say is this is a super ending to this series! From start to finish, Bradley leads you on an action-packed adventure that is full of intrigue suspense, mayhem and murder. She has provided readers with the main characters of Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont and former FBI a sniper Lincoln Steele. Ainsley is back in her hometown of Natchez, MS to investigate the murder of a teenager and Linc is now working at Melrose Estate as an interpretive ranger. These two have a past but can they put it behind them in order to work together to solve this steadily increasing dangerous case? When Ainsley’s life is ultimately threatened, will Linc’s true feelings produce the courage he needs to reclaim the skills he needs to protect her?
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