β Scribed by Taite, Carsen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Business and pleasure donβt mix, especially when the business is murder.
When Aimee Howard, successful boutique real estate broker and socialite, is visited by a team of federal agents looking to arrest her wayward niece, she hires the best defense money can buy. But Aimee begins to question her confidence in the law firm when she learns theyβve hired a disgraced former police detective to take the lead.
Homicide detective Skye Keatonβs shortcuts in the name of justice have finally tipped the scales in the wrong direction. Sheβs lost her job, her pride, and the respect of her family and friends. When an old friend trusts her with a simple taskβfind a young woman in hidingβsheβs happy to have the work even though the client is a bossy former debutante who wants to micromanage her every move.
Skye reluctantly decides to let Aimee close to the investigation so she can manage Aimeeβs expectations, but their professional proximity quickly takes a turn toward passion. Despite their best defenses, as they work together to regain what theyβve lost, both women find the magnetic attraction that develops between them hard to resist.
Carsen Taite is an avid reader and writer of lesbian fiction. Carsen works by day (and sometimes night) as a criminal defense attorney in Dallas, Texas. Though her day job is often stranger than fiction, she canβt seem to get enough and spends much of her free time devouring novels, lesbian fiction in particular.
Carsen is an active member of the GLBT community, participating in several organizations on both the local and state levels. Carsen is married (Canadian-style) and she and her spouse live near White Rock Lake in Dallas where they enjoy cycling and walking the trails with their fuzzy beasts.
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