Cold Case at Carlton's Canyon

Cold Case at Carlton's Canyon
Rita Herron

Cold Case atCarlton’s CanyonSgt Justin Thorpe won’t stop until he finds the serial killer who’s already claimed ten innocent lives. He works solo, until he joins forces with Sheriff Amanda Blair. But Thorpe can’t let his desire for his co-worker keep him from his mission, especially when it looks like Amanda might be the final victim in this killer’s terrifying game…

“But just so you know, I don’t mix business with pleasure.”

He hadn’t asked her to.

She shot him a fiery look. “I may be a woman, but I can do my job.”

“I never said you couldn’t,” Justin said.

“Good, I’m glad we got that out of the way.”

He had to admit he was intrigued by her spunk. Obviously she’d battled her way up against men in her field who probably thought she was incompetent based on her sex.

Either that or they were sidetracked by her good looks.

He wouldn’t make that mistake.

And he certainly couldn’t or wouldn’t allow her pretty little face to distract him. He was here to solve the case of the missing girls.

Nothing else mattered.

Especially the little zing of lightning that had sizzled between them when he’d brushed her hand earlier.

Cold Case at

Carlton’s

Canyon

Rita Herron

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Award-winning author RITA HERRON wrote her first book when she was twelve, but didn’t think real people grew up to be writers. Now she writes so she doesn’t have to get a real job. A former kindergarten teacher and workshop leader, she traded storytelling to kids for writing romance, and now she writes romantic comedies and romantic suspense. She lives in Georgia with her own romance hero and three kids. She loves to hear from readers, so please write her at PO Box 921225, Norcross, GA 30092-1225, USA, or visit her website, www.ritaherron.com.

To my own hero, Lee—love you always,

Rita

Contents

Prologue (#ucc75877e-9757-50a7-9339-edcf69caaf4a)

Chapter One (#u7214231d-7f28-5ec3-bcc5-83175b40c445)

Chapter Two (#u505deb1e-5c29-5f2a-900d-5ef12dce6afc)

Chapter Three (#ubee1f1df-8aa2-5f76-8842-8081cdd2846d)

Chapter Four (#u98a4010b-9faa-5a0c-ab22-8750d9d5a21f)

Chapter Five (#u23e72bd4-3230-5f9b-bf77-b3c75094fd79)

Chapter Six (#ua3b7824d-d12d-5fb7-b4f2-5559361a239e)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Excerpt (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

Kelly Lambert did not want to die.