Book description
On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy
U. S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront
cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mackenzie fends
off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a
deranged drifter - until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives. With
Rook, Mackenzie broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in
law enforcement, but she knows he isn't up from Washington, D. C., to
set things straight between them. He's on a case. As the hunt for the
mysterious attacker continues, the case takes an unexpected turn when
Mackenzie follows Rook back to Washington and finds that Bernadette's
former mentor, a once-powerful, now-disgraced judge who has been
providing Rook with information, has gone missing. Mackenzie and Rook
realize the stakes are higher than either had imagined, and a master
criminal with nothing left to lose is prepared to gamble everything.
On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy
U. S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront
cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mackenzie fends
off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a
deranged drifter - until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives. With
Rook, Mackenzie broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in
law enforcement, but she knows he isn't up from Washington, D. C., to
set things straight between them. He's on a case. As the hunt for the
mysterious attacker continues, the case takes an unexpected turn when
Mackenzie follows Rook back to Washington and finds that Bernadette's
former mentor, a once-powerful, now-disgraced judge who has been
providing Rook with information, has gone missing. Mackenzie and Rook
realize the stakes are higher than either had imagined, and a master
criminal with nothing left to lose is prepared to gamble everything.
