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T. Jefferson Parker

Sep 2012 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A religious prostitute’s murder forces Merci to suspect the man she loves
Aubrey Whittaker is nineteen, God-fearing, and good at her job. The men of Orange County love the statuesque beauty—at least, the men who can afford her. She is watching an evangelist preach on television, just finished with her last date of the night, when she hears a knock at the door. Death waits on the other side. It has been two years since ambitious young detective Merci Rayborn made the worst mistake of her life, getting her partner killed and leaving her unborn son without a father. As she tries to put herself back together, she starts dating Mike McNally, a well-respected and religiously devout cop. But when McNally becomes a suspect in the dead prostitute’s murder, Merci is forced to choose between love and justice. And to finish grieving for her murdered lover, she may have to put her newest one behind bars.

About the author

T. Jefferson Parker (b. 1953) is a bestselling author of thrillers. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in Orange County, and attended college at nearby University of California, Irvine. After graduation, he took a job as a cub reporter at the Newport Ensign, and spent several years as a journalist before writing his first novel, the bestselling Laguna Heat (1985). A torrid story of corruption and murder by the California coast, it was made into an HBO original movie of the same name. He continued writing thrillers through the 1990s, including The Triggerman’s Dance (1996) and Where Serpents Lie (1998), before introducing ambitious Orange County detective Merci Rayborn in The Blue Hour (1999). Parker concluded Rayborn’s three novel series with Black Water (2002). Recently, he has written a series of novels starring Charlie Hood, a sheriff’s deputy working on the Mexican border. He continues to live and write in Southern California.