Book description
Four years ago Emily Locke's life was shattered when her infant
daughter and husband were lost in an inexplicable accident. She has
nearly rebuilt her fragile mental health when Richard Cole, a disgraced
former police detective now working as a PI, resurfaces. He wants help
he says only she can provide-reconnaissance at a Texas sky-diving
establishment over a thousand miles away. Emily knows better than to
work with him again, but can't refuse. She identifies too greatly with
the new missing child case. At Gulf Coast Skydiving, similarities
between this new case and Emily's troubled past make it increasingly
difficult for her to stay objective. Soon she's convinced that she is
somehow connected to whoever took little Casey Lyons. Someone at the
quiet, rural airstrip knows what happened to the boy and to Emily's own
daughter. To find Casey before it's too late, Emily will have to make
sense of the menacing parallels between this case and her daughter's....
A skydiver gets roped into p. i. work when clues in a kidnapping point
to a fellow diver. Emily Locke is just trying to get through her daily
routine when Richard Cole, police detective turned private eye, asks her
help in solving a child's kidnapping. Cole needs Locke because the only
clue in the case is a skydiving ride ticket left at the crime scene, and
Locke is an experienced diver who can infiltrate the skydiving crowd.
Unfortunately for Cole, Locke is still upset with him for failing to
appear in court when a man went on trial for the murder of her husband
and daughter. Even so, she reluctantly agrees to head out to Gulf Coast
Skydiving and pose as part of the scene, where she becomes fast friends
with the crew, especially handsome loner Vince. She thinks she's
blending in perfectly until a fellow diver who's borrowed her gear has a
suspicious malfunction during her jump. Suddenly, Locke suspects someone
is trying to sabotage her. As things slowly build to an extended climax,
she wonders whether her involvement in this case may be more than mere
coincidence. Solving the abduction may give Locke the information she's
been looking for about what happened to her own family. But will she
survive long enough to get the closure she's been looking for? Brady's
debut is weighed down with technical information about skydiving. For
buffs, it's a must; the less committed might want to sit this jump out.
A graduate of Wright State University and The Ohio State University,
Rachel enjoys a career in biomedical engineering in addition to the time
she spends writing mystery and suspense fiction. Her interests include
health and fitness, acoustic guitar, and books of all kinds. She lives
outside of Houston, Texas, with her husband and their three children.
Visit Rachel on-line at www. rachelbrady. net.
