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No matter when it had happened, the possibility had been rendered fact. Sara was deeply and profoundly in love with Will Trent. There was no walking back from it. No denying it. Her heart had made the decision while her brain was making excuses. She knew it the minute she saw him last night. Sara would do anything to keep him.

Amanda caught her reflection in the chrome of the pay phone. She was twenty-five years old. She had touched a dead person last weekend. She had stared down a pimp yesterday morning. Helped examine a dead girl last night.

“Whatever we did, it pissed off someone enough to get us yanked off the street and tied to crossing duty.”

This book contains a lot of the backstory about Evelyn and Amanda as they began their careers at the Atlanta Police Department and eventually came to the GBI. There is a lot said about the horrible working conditions about women in the police department. Pretty damning material about mail attitudes and actions.

“Shut up!” There was a flash of white skin as he jammed the flashlight up Evelyn’s skirt and pressed it between her legs. He warned, “Unless you want that for real, you better do as I damn well say. You hear me?” Evelyn didn’t speak. She could only nod. Her hands shook as they went up in surrender.

Her freaking nose was rotting from the inside, but she couldn’t stop snorting the stuff. Couldn’t stop thinking about the smash cut to her brain. The way it shook through her body. The way it made the world so much more bearable.

“Tell them you’re twenty-four,” Amanda managed. Duke Wagner was wrong about Evelyn Mitchell being pushy and opinionated. The woman was just plain crazy. BACKSTORY ON A COUPLE OF THE REGULARS.

Amanda felt every ounce of the weight as she hefted her purse onto her shoulder and got out of the car. Same equipment, but now that she was a plainclothes officer it was in a leather bag instead of on her hips. It had to be called progress.