The Second Lie by Quinn Tara Taylor

Author:Quinn, Tara Taylor [Quinn, Tara Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-04T05:00:00+00:00

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Staring at her reflection in the mirror Saturday morning, Sam sipped from her second cup of extrastrong ground Colombian and faced the truth.

She’d reached a point in life where she had to decide who she was, a decision that was going to define the rest of her life.

She could back down from her convictions, play the game the way everyone seemed to want her to do. Spend her free time looking for a drug distributor while the evil substance continued to be produced in large quantities right here in the county.

Or she could risk her job, her friendship with Kyle, the respect of her peers and her family by continuing to look for a superlab. She wasn’t Joe Blow cop. She was the daughter of Peter Jones, a man who’d lost it in the line of duty and paid the price.

So did she do the reasonable thing and just let the hunch go? Bury her head in the sand as Chuck and the sheriff wanted her to do, accepting that there wasn’t time or resources to act on a mere possibility? Did she please her loved ones, her mother and Pierce and Kyle, and play it safe?

Or did she carry on the legacy of her grandfather? A legacy her father had bequeathed to her as surely as he’d left her having to live down the fallout from his last act.

Both her father and grandfather had served the public their entire lives by trusting hunches. Acting on them. Countless times.

Just as Sam had done during a routine traffic stop that had turned into a shoot-out. This wasn’t about ego. Or needing the big plays. She’d turned that one over to an officer wearing a bulletproof vest because she’d had a hunch to do so.

There’d been other times, as well. Many of them.

Peter Jones had been a great cop—just like his father. The best. He’d been a natural.

He’d just let a personal crisis interfere with his good judgment and acted on a misguided “hunch” rather than relying on solid police work.

Did that mean Sam was somehow genetically predisposed to make a similar mistake?

“Who are you?” she asked the blue eyes staring back at her.

And she knew she was going to have to make a call.

Chandler, Ohio

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Camy and I were lying in bed reading on Saturday morning. Or rather, I was reading. The princess, pressed up against my side, slept. She wasn’t interested in the newest selection from my book club. Neither was I, to tell the truth, but I slogged on diligently, trusting that I’d benefit from the ensuing conversations regarding its readability or the motivations behind it.

At the very least, someone would tell me why the book had been deemed worthy of a club read.

I checked my page number, something I’d been doing every single time I turned a page, as though miraculously I’d whizzed through half the book and just not noticed.

I was only on the third chapter.

Just to make certain I hadn’t misread the total page count, I flipped through to the end again.

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