Attorney Clare Westbrook and homicide detective Tony
Sonterra leave the battle-scarred streets of Phoenix behind
them for a quieter life in the Arizona desert. Clare is
four months pregnant and Tony has accepted a job as the
Chief of Police in Dry Creek, near Tucson.
Sonterra befriended a young, Mexican boy eight months
earlier and wrangled him a job in his family's landscape
business. Immigration found the boy a few weeks after he
arrived, during a routine green-card check, and sent him
home to Mexico. Tony has just identified the boy's body at
the Pima County Forensic Science Center. Maybe because of
his own Hispanic heritage, Tony thought he could make a
difference, if only for this one boy.
Clare knows this is the reason Tony accepted the job in Dry
Creek. She also knows the job has something to do with the
stream of illegal immigrants flooding in from Mexico and
the "coyotes" -- the sleazy flesh smugglers who run Mexican
nationals across the border for a very large price. They
lock their "clients" in the trunks of cars, in airless
vans, in "safe houses" with no food or water, often just
shooting them and leaving them in the desert for the
buzzards. Tony has chosen this battle because he can't just
roll over and let these "coyotes" keep on killing innocent
people. Clare looks forward to starting up a new law
practice and preparing for the birth of their child.
But, if you've read DON'T LOOK NOW and NEVER LOOK BACK, you
know that Tony and Clare's life together is far from quiet,
far from peaceful, far from sedate, far from normal. Dry
Creek is no exception when they're drawn into a roller
coaster ride of mystery, deception, secrets and murder,
with the body count rising daily and both of them fighting
for their own personal survival.
Miller never disappoints her readers with her exceptional
storytelling. ONE LAST LOOK is an incredible conclusion to
this romantic suspense series that will leave you
breathless. As the desert heat reaches a fever pitch, so
does this story, not to mention the chemistry between Tony
and Clare, which singes the pages. This stunning series
will be one of my favorites for years to come. It's a
keeper -- don't miss it.
Clare Westbrook is a survivor who built her law practice
from sheer determination -- and an unexpected inheritance.
Now Clare, carrying her lover Tony Sonterra's child, has
taken the biggest risk of all: saying "yes" to his marriage
proposal and finally burying her lifelong commitment phobia.
So why is fear running through her veins and haunting her
dreams? Sonterra is fired up to leave Phoenix for small-town
Arizona, to replace the town's missing police chief and
target a lethal desert crime ring. Clare's willing to stand
by her man, but her fiancé won't be the only one flirting
with danger on the job: as a special investigator for the
D.A.'s office, Clare is plunged into a race to find a
missing child whose mother was murdered -- a hot case that
puts Clare's safety, and that of her unborn child, on the
edge. For in a place where secrets have nowhere to hide, the
promise of Clare's bright future could vanish in the blink
of an eye....
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