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Action/Thriller
Publisher: Brighton Publishing LLC
ISBN-10: 1621834255
Type: Fiction
Pages: 198
Copyright: June 14, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781621834250
Price: $5.99 (eBook)
Connecticut private investigator Brenda Corrino’s sixteen-year-old niece Madison has gone missing in Arizona. Known for bringing the DVD Murderer to justice during her stint as a Fairfield County homicide detective, her unacquainted sister Faith Brenna requests her help from Arizona.
Connecticut private investigator Brenda Corrino’s sixteen-year-old niece Madison has gone missing in Arizona. Known for bringing the DVD Murderer to justice during her stint as a Fairfield County homicide detective, her unacquainted sister Faith Brenna requests her help from Arizona.
Brenda recently went through a tough time herself, recovering from being raped and almost murdered by the DVD Murderer while working undercover. She broke ties with her boyfriend and wanted nothing to do with him, even though he helped to rescue her. She was labeled as having PTSD. After months of therapy, she has recovered to the point that she was able to resume her relationship with her boyfriend and now business partner, Dr. Darren Crowe.
Brenda arrives in Arizona and quickly befriends the local sheriff, Deputy Sheriff Logan Cartwright, who tells her about a similar case in a nearby town where another girl disappeared five years ago. The girl recently resurfaced unscathed and is unwilling to talk about where she has been for the past five years.
Faith and her husband have a few secrets of their own that Brenda must scrutinize to rule out possible suspects, including the two of them. She promises to not reveal Faith’s secret, as long as it does not get in the way of finding the people responsible for Madison’s disappearance. Brenda summons Darren to join her in Arizona to help find her niece.
Arizona is one of the states that has a large presence and reputation of human trafficking. Brenda becomes concerned that Madison may have become a victim. She realizes she is getting close to the truth when a Hummer purposely runs her car off an Arizona highway, causing her rental car to flip several times. She and Darren get banged-up, but survive. Brenda is now more determined than ever to find Madison and put an end to her sister’s fears.
Brenda and Darren attend a party with her sister to observe and investigate her friends under the pretense of participating in partner swapping activities. As the party winds down, Brenda’s unique investigative style has provided her with enough insight into who might be involved in Madison’s vanishing act. She informs Sheriff Cartwright of her gut feelings and together they devise a plan to uncover the truth.
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Excerpt
Madison Brenna was both excited and
apprehensive as she rode in the back of the shiny black limousine. She had no idea where she was going or what she would be doing for the next five years. She was promised a journey of a lifetime. She was promised an
education. She was told that she would become wealthy. Her plan was to help her parents get out of debt and to pay college tuition for her sister now and her brother later.
I will be educated for free. I wonder why I was chosen for the opportunity? My friends will be so jealous, she thought.
Madison remembered how the man in the convertible kept showing up at her softball practice two years ago and eventually offered her a ride home. Of course, she refused. She knew better
than to get in a car with a stranger. However, one time her mom called her cell to tell her that she was in a traffic jam on I-17 and would be at least an hour late. The rest of the team had already headed home, so she asked the man in the red convertible for a ride home and he’d said, “Sure.”
He’d kept his hands to himself. He didn’t make any inappropriate suggestions. He didn’t try to steal her. The man took her straight home. They became friends. Her friends were jealous.
She began to relax as she sat in the cool limo, intoxicated by the smell of the fruity floral blend of Viva La Juicy. How thoughtful of them to fill the limo with the fragrance of my favorite perfume. She was dressed for success, wearing a kick-ass pair of black jeans and one of her favorite graphic tees. She picked up the
black hood off the seat and placed it over her head, as instructed.
Madison kept reaching for her back pocket to check her phone. Then she chuckled. I don’t have my phone. It was not allowed. No electronics. No anything.
“Just show up with the clothes on your back, and we will take care of it from there,” he had said. “Don’t question anything.”
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