“That’s him,” Katie said with a tinge of excitement, almost as if she was relieved that this was easier than she thought it would be.
“Are you sure?”
It was Deputy Wilson’s photo. Maggie still wasn’t sure if the girl recognized him as the man who shot her father or if she simply remembered his face from the day they’d found her. Wilson and the sheriff had stayed back the entire time, never leaving the side of the cruiser, but was it possible Katie could have seen him that day? Was that where she was remembering him from?
“Good job,” Delaney said and squeezed her hand.
Gwen was already putting the photos away but she caught Maggie’s eyes, and Maggie could see she was just as skeptical about this. But Cunningham thought it was important.
“I’ll see you later today,” Gwen told the girl and started to leave.
“I’ll be right back,” Maggie said and followed Gwen out the door.
She and Gwen walked side by side down the hallway before either of them spoke. Finally they turned the corner and stopped at the elevators but neither of them pushed the button.
“She might never remember the events of that day,” Gwen said. “She doesn’t even remember walking around the trailer although we know that’s where she got all the blood on the soles of her feet.”
“We can’t protect her forever from this other killer. In the meantime what are we supposed to do?” Maggie asked.
“I suggest you do what you do best, Agent O’Dell. Find him.”
About Alex Kava
ALEX IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD WINNING AUTHOR of psychological suspense novels. Her Maggie O’Dell series has been widely praised by critics and fans. They have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.
ON JANUARY 2015, Alex is introducing her fans to Ryder Creed, a retired marine dog handler who will have his own series starting with SILENT CREED.
Alex’s books have been published in twenty-six countries and have hit the bestseller lists in Australia, Germany, Poland, Italy and the UK. She is also one of the featured writers in the anthology Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, edited by James Patterson.
In 2011, she teamed up with fellow author friends J.T. Ellison and Erica Spindler to write SLICES of NIGHT (a novella in 3 parts) and in 2013 STORM SEASON.
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Bad Break
A Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller Novella
by CJ Lyons
Chapter 1
The boy was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen—especially since he had no idea she was watching him. Megan stood on the balcony of their hotel room, her mom still asleep behind the sliding glass doors.
High tide had receded enough that she could spot the foam-capped breakers past the dunes beyond the hotel’s pool. The sunrise sky was painted in shades of citrus as if God had awoken craving a fruit salad: a wedge of lemon yellow sun surrounded by ribbons of tangerine and raspberry clouds, the sea below the shade of blueberries with lime-green waves of grass crowning the dunes.
None of it as beautiful as the boy. He was tall, obviously older than Megan’s fourteen, but she couldn’t resist the sight of him. He’d strode up from the dunes wearing a wetsuit with its top peeled down around his hips, leaving his chest bare, and carrying a surfboard taller than he was. When he’d entered the pool area, he’d tilted the board upright to stand beside him. Then, in one breathtaking motion, he’d vaulted into the deep end of the pool with a sideways dive into the water, carrying the long board with him. It was the single most graceful, stunning movement Megan had ever seen. As if the water had called to him and he was part of it, returning home.
When he came up for air, he rolled onto the floating surfboard and, using one hand, lazily stroked the water, gliding over the surface, eyes closed. Megan felt something stir inside her—an unfamiliar warmth, a yearning to share the freedom he possessed.