Stir up: Horses, Romance, Insurance Fraud and murder, and you'll get IN THE ARMS OF THE ENEMY by Patricia A. Guthrie.
When law enforcement fails him, horseman Adam Blakely goes undercover to find who had a hand in the death of his father, his father's trainer and their prize horse. Suspect? Assistant trainer, Maggie McGregor.
Maggie leaves the tumultuous world of horse racing to find peace at her father's ranch. When a handsome boarder moves his horse into the McGregor barn--that's when the accidents start.
Maggie and Adam find themselves in a sea of deceptions and lies, and must find who's running an insurance fraud scheme and who murdered a trainer and prize race horse, before the killers come knocking on their doorstep.
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It was a great day to catch a killer.
"I don't give a damn anymore about anything except finding Maggie McGregor." He'd do anything to bring to justice the woman who'd destroyed his father. And since his FBI friends couldn't or wouldn't help, he decided to concoct a new identity--Adam Grant, playboy entrepreneur.
He was determined to see what this she-devil might look like.
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