Zero at the Bone

Katherine Driscoll is just three weeks away from disaster: foreclosure onher home and business, even the sale of her beloved dog. She has no hope ofraising the $91,000 she so desperately needs--until the father she hasn't seenfor thirty years writes to her, offering her enough money to solve herproblems...if she will do one thing in return.

But Katherine may never learn what that is. When she arrives in Austin, she ishours too late: her father has died in a bizarre accident. As she siftsthrough the cryptic notes he left behind, she finds herself caught up interrible family secrets--and a deadly illicit trade. The more she learns, themore determined she becomes to prove her father's death was no accident. Indoing so, Katherine will make a bitter enemy--one desperate enough tokill...and perhaps, kill again.

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