A boy goes missing — and the search to find him leads to murder.
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When 8-year old Jerry Beakey goes missing it's Detective Steve Music's job to get out there and find the boy—alive if possible.
One ray of sunshine in this case is Shelly Lambert, a volunteer from The Coalition for Missing Children.
Together they delve into Jerry's mysterious disappearance. The FBI enters the case. Everybody, even Jerry's parents and his priest, comes under suspicion. Registered sex offenders and sometimes unregistered offenders; all are placed under the microscope, but every clue proves to be a dead end.
And to make matters worse, secrets from Shelly's past emerge to pour rain on the budding romance between her and Steve.
But in the end, working separately, Shelly and Steve both come to the frightening solution to Jerry's disappearance. The race is on to catch a murderer—and save Jerry before it's too late!
Excerpt
Back in her Acura, Shelly’s thoughts turned abruptly to Steve Music. She smiled. He must have at least ten years on her. Hey, she thought, you’re thirty-one years old, girl. Ten years don’t make the difference they might have made ten years ago. She smiled, thinking, remembering his voice, his smell. There was just something about the police detective. Her brow furrowed with impatience, then it came to her. She smiled. That’s what it was: this darned detective piqued her interest. Every time she talked to Music, she wanted to know more about him.
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