In my latest release, CUT AND RUN, medical examiner Dr. Faith McIntyre is called to the hospital
when unconscious and critically injured FBI Agent Macy Crow is brought to the emergency
room after a vicious hit and run. The Quantico-based agent is Faith’s mirror image and her
existence brings into question Faith’s adoption, which was always shrouded in secrets. Could
Macy be the twin sister Faith never knew she had? And what was Macy doing in a dark Austin
alley? More importantly, who and what are behind the clues Macy has left that lead Faith and
Texas Ranger Mitchell Hayden to the graves of three women who disappeared thirty years
before? Is it possible Macy found a connection between those graves and a pregnant girl who
has been missing for months?
CUT
AND RUN is chocked full of emotion, beginning with the opening scene featuring Paige, a
pregnant teen who has been locked in a windowless room for months and is days away from
going into labor. She’s as terrified of giving birth alone as she is frightened of her brutal jailor.
I’m hoping readers feel Paige’s desperation as strongly as I did when I wrote this scene.
The relationship between Faith and Mitchell is also steeped with
feelings that are rooted not only in attraction but also in the love they both had for his late
wife, Sierra, who was Faith’s best friend. In the scene when Faith and Mitchell make love in the
hotel room, each is battling deep-seated guilt and sadness, even as they embrace a desire
that won’t let either go.
Faith’s relationship with another pregnant runaway, Kat, leads to
several poignant scenes. In one, Faith reflects on Kat’s future and recognizes the girl’s
potential. I should mention that Kat’s normal teen moments are made all the more intense as
she struggles to navigate the difficult waters of homelessness and teen pregnancy.
I hope you enjoy CUT AND RUN. There were plenty of moments when I was sitting on the edge
of my seat while I was typing---and I was pretty sure of what was going to happen next. I’m
looking forward to hearing from readers as to whether they, too, experience the same mix of
fear, sadness and hope that I did.
Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in New York Times
bestselling author Mary Burton’s throat-clutching novel of suspense…
Trauma victims are not new to medical examiner Faith McIntyre, but
this one is different. The unconscious woman clinging to life after a hit and run is FBI agent
Macy Crow. What the woman from Quantico was doing in a dark alley after midnight is just one
mystery. The other is more unsettling: Macy is Faith’s mirror image—the twin sister she never
knew she had.
Faith knew that she was adopted, but now she’s finding that her
childhood concealed other secrets. Following the trail of clues Macy
left behind, Faith and Texas Ranger Mitchell Hayden make a shocking discovery on an isolated
country ranch—a burial ground for three women who disappeared thirty years before.
They weren’t the only victims in a killer’s twisted plot. And they won’t
be the last.
As the missing pieces of Faith’s and Macy’s dark lives snap into place,
Faith is becoming more terrified by what she sees—and by what she must do to save her
sister and herself from the past.
Romance Suspense | Thriller [Montlake Romance, On Sale: October
9, 2018, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 978150390286 / ]
Mary Burton loves writing suspense, researching law enforcement and forensic procedures,
morning walks, baking, books, and tiny dachshunds. She also enjoys hunting down serial
killers, which she does in her New York Times and USA Today bestselling novels of suspense
and romance. She’s the author of thirty-four published novels, five novellas and four works of
contemporary women’s fiction written as Mary Ellen Taylor. Library Journal has compared her
work to that of Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner, and Fresh Fiction likened her writing to that of
James Patterson.
A member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America,
Novelists, Inc., and Romance Writers of America, Mary is known for creating multiple suspense
stories connected by characters, such as her recent The Forgotten Files novels. Her new
book, Her Last Word, and The Last Move, break that mold.
When not traveling for research or visiting with readers at bookstores, book festivals and
conferences, Mary remains very much a homebody. She and her husband spend time
alternately enjoying and lamenting their empty nest and spoiling their four-legged babies
Buddy, Bella and Tiki.
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