Deliverer (17 page)
Authors: Tamara Hart Heiner
Tamara Hart Heiner is a mom, wife, baker, and an author. She currently lives in Arkansas with her husband and four children. Her other books include
Perilous
and
Altercation
, young adult suspense novels published by WiDo Publishing that share Jacinta Rivera’s side of the story. Her books also include
Inevitable
, published by Tamark Press, and
Tornado Warning
, scheduled for release in May 2014 by Dancing Lemur Press.
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D
etective Carl Hamilton is called out on a homicide case, where the partially decayed body of an unidentified teenage girl is found along a remote highway...
Weeks before, Jacinta Rivera joined her best friends Callie, Sara and Amanda for a night of pizza and shopping. But an evening at the mall turned into a terrifying twist of events that drove Jaci and her friends 2000 miles across the Canadian border. The girls escaped the kidnapper’s lair only to find that he has spies and agents working on both sides.
They are being hunted, and not even the police can be trusted….And Detective Hamilton is in a life and death race to find the three remaining girls before the kidnapper does.
Continue for a preview of
Perilous
!
The FBI promises Jacinta Rivera and her friends that they are safe. Jaci wants desperately to believe them but weeks of hiding from their kidnapper, alias "The Hand", have left her wary. Hidden from the public eye in an FBI safe house, Jaci must reconcile both her father's mysterious disappearance and the murder of her best friend.
A betrayal lands Jaci back in the grasp of The Hand, shattering her ability to trust and leaving her to wonder if she will ever piece together her broken life.
Jayne’s disturbing visions of death merge with horrifying reality when she witnesses a murder. Can she bring down the killer before he brings about her own demise?
September 20
Havre, Montana
Detective Carl Hamilton shielded his eyes against the blaring blue lights and flashed his badge at the police officer. The man moved aside. Hamilton stepped off the paved, two-lane highway just outside of Havre, Montana. Orange tape blocked off the crime scene, hidden by the darkness of early morning. He ducked under the tape and pushed his way into the dry shrubbery.
A sergeant shone a flashlight on his face and asked, “Are you Detective Hamilton?”
He gave a short nod.
“
I’m Shirley White.” Pressing her hand to her nose, she turned her attention back to the ground.
The stench of rotting flesh was strong. “Ma’am. What have we found?”
“It’s a girl. We think it’s one of the four you’ve been looking for.”
Carl’s stomach knotted. “Cause of death?”
“We’ll have to perform an autopsy, of course, but it appears to be a gunshot wound. Is it one of them?”
“
Where is she?”
“
Under the bushes.”
He crouched down and moved the bushes aside, breathing through his mouth. This never got any easier. The branches parted to reveal a young girl, features distorted by death but still recognizable. The open eyes stared blankly up at him. He released the branches and stood up, giving a nod. “Yes. It’s one of them.”
The case had just gone from a kidnapping to a homicide. And there were three girls still missing.
Other books by Tamark Publishing
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But along with an unwanted pirate-look, Cyrus discovers he gained something else in the accident: the ability to summon visions of other times and places. When Cyrus realizes a serial killer is after him, he has to make his defective eye work overtime to keep him and his family alive
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