Power by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [WEBB, DEBRA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, General, Romance
ISBN: 9781455527557
Publisher: Forever Yours
Published: 2012-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Jess drove away from Twenty-Ninth without looking back. She wished it were dark so no one could see her flee the scene. She had been back in Birmingham just over two weeks and already she was screwing things up. It had taken her nearly eighteen years to destroy her career at the bureau. Was she on the fast track now that she had a little experience in the art of self-destruction?

She had allowed the Player case to get to her. With every fiber of her being she had been convinced that Eric Spears was the serial killer known as the Player. But she hadn’t been able to prove it. So she’d broken the rules in an attempt to get the job done. Oh, she’d had a reputation for stepping on toes and pushing hot buttons, but she’d never crossed the line.

Until Spears.

And she had failed. He’d gotten away, with no telling how many murders to his credit, not once but twice.

She turned onto Druid Hills Drive, not realizing until she made the turn that the Simmonses’ neighborhood was her destination. Jess slowed to a stop. She’d lived here for a year. Gone to school just a few streets over.

Jess made two more turns as dusk slowly sank around her, compressing the humidity and heat against her chest and making it harder to breathe. She parked across the street from the small square box that according to Gina Coleman was still her aunt’s house. The house had been white at one time. Now it was a dingy gray. The red shutters Jess remembered were gone. Probably lost to neglect and disrepair. The lawn needed a mowing. The ancient Toyota in the drive looked at least a couple of decades older than Jess’s Audi.

She’d hated this place. How could her parents die and leave her and Lily to live in this dump? At night back then Jess had lain in the bed she and Lily shared and asked herself that question over and over while her aunt entertained in the next room. Her stomach roiled even now at the memories.

She and Lily had lost everything. Their parents, their lives as they knew them. That fragile yet loving innocence good parents wove carefully around their children had been ripped apart. Something changed deep inside Jess during that horrifying year. For her, failure could not be an option. She had to succeed and she worked harder than her peers to ensure that happened. Meeting and falling in love with Dan in high school hadn’t been on her agenda. But she’d soon bought into the dream. Maybe she could have it all and him, too.

Until he’d had enough and then he’d returned to Birmingham, leaving her alone and fractured. But she had survived and she’d accomplished every single career goal she’d set out to attain.

She stared at the run-down shack her aunt called home. Oh yes, Jess had refused to stop until she had reached her goals. And then somehow things had gone wrong. One failure shouldn’t have screwed up everything, and yet it felt exactly as if it had.

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