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Deception
2025
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Is there nothing a mother wouldn’t do to save her own child? Rochelle Pendleton has a problem. Her three-year-old son, Joey, has been diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, and his only chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant—and his odds are best with a familial donor, and she’s not a match. Her dilemma lies in the non-disclosure agreement she signed at Joey’s birth, exchanging her silence regarding the child’s paternity for a sizable cash settlement. Desperate to appeal to the man’s sensibilities without violating the NDA, Ms. Pendleton sets out to hire a team of private detectives to relay her urgent plea for help, but she can’t seem to find a firm willing to accept the assignment—at least not until she walks through the doors of Boggs Investigations. Once Dwayne Morrow learns the identity of Joey’s father, a powerful senator with connections to an achingly fresh personal loss, it provides an unexpected opportunity to gain closure for his family while helping a distraught mother in the process. With or without Doug’s approval, it’s a case Dwayne simply can’t refuse. Will Dwayne find the answers he’s looking for or will the senator’s highly-trained security detail stop him dead in his tracks? Deception is the seventh edge-of-your-seat entry in the Dwayne Morrow Mystery series!

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Darin Miller
Darin Miller
Author · 11 books
Darin Miller was born in Portsmouth but currently resides in Grove City, both of which are located in Ohio. While he has worked in Information Technology for three decades, he has not solved a single, solitary crime to date. He is the BookFest award-winning author of the Ohio-based Dwayne Morrow Mystery series, as well as an unrelated short story collection, Broken Bits and Bobs, and a standalone psychological horror thriller, Equilibrium. With equal parts action, humor, suspense and mystery, the Dwayne Morrow series features characters you’re sure to love—and in some cases, loathe.
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