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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


The First Cut by Dianne Emley

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Also by Dianne Emley:

Killing Secrets, August 2015
e-Book
The Night Visitor, September 2014
e-Book
Love Kills, June 2010
Paperback
The Deepest Cut, March 2009
Hardcover
Cut to the Quick, February 2009
Paperback
The First Cut, December 2008
Paperback (reprint)
The First Cut, September 2006
Hardcover

The First Cut
Dianne Emley

Detective Nan Vining #1
Ballantine Books
December 2008
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Featuring: Nan Vining
416 pages
ISBN: 0345486188
EAN: 9780345486189
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Police Procedural

For two minutes she was dead.

The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal–and it left her lifeless . . . until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop–and mother–she was before? And will her attacker someday return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself?

Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home: A slain policewoman has been discovered beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can’t help but feel profoundly drawn to the murdered officer, Frankie Lynde–and she is deeply troubled by the baffling otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours. Are these mere fever dreams? Or could they be, as Vining’s daughter insists, messages from beyond the grave?

Digging deeper into Lynde’s past, Vining discovers clues that set her on the twisted trail of a killer as ruthless as he is depraved–a predator whose methods and madness recall those of her own attacker. Amid a rising tide of danger, she pushes herself to bold new limits, desperate to avenge the murder of a fellow police officer . . . and to reclaim the life she lost a year ago.

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