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Finley Creek: Texas State Police
Series · 3 books · 2016

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#1

Her Best Friend's Keeper

2016

★ ★ ★ Ten years. Three months. Sixteen days. ★ ★ ★ She hasn't felt safe in ten years, three months, and sixteen days. As a teenager Gabby Kendall witnessed the execution of her best friend's family. Those images haunt her every day. Now... Now the killers are back. They know who she is, where she lives, and who her friends are. They know everything about her... He has the TSP to run, and a woman to protect... Elliot Marshall had lost almost his entire family when they'd been murdered ten years ago. Now he is back in Finley Creek, searching for the killers. Elliot isn't about to let anyone hurt the woman who had been his murdered sister's best friend. The only place she feels safe is next to him. But the price of that safety may be someone else close to her. Close to him. And one thing is clear: they can't lose someone else they love like that ever again...
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#2

Shelter from the Storm

2016

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01M9C9CT3 ★ ★ ★ Murder. Secrets. A killer still watching her... ★ ★ ★ Brynna Beck has plans for her future. The Finley Creek Texas State Police is just a stepping stone for her. Nothing is going to sway her from her path—and she's stubborn enough to go after what she wants. When Brynna discovers new information on a ten-year-old murder case she gains the wrong sort of attention. He wants answers... Former Texas Ranger Chance Marshall has spent ten years searching for the men who'd slaughtered his family. He has nothing more now than he had back then—until Brynna. She promises him the answers to his questions—if he promises to take her home to Finley Creek. To get the answers he needs, Chance will have to keep Brynna safe—while the storm rages around them. ★★★★★ SECOND in the FINLEY CREEK: TSP—Marshall Murders Trilogy ★★★★★
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#3

The Price of Silence

2016

She was the protector, not the protected… Former TSP Homicide detective Melody Beck had spent her life standing between the evil in the world and her younger sisters. When one of those sisters is attacked and nearly killed Mel would do whatever it took to find the answers they sought. Even if those answers led straight back to the wealthiest family in Texas. To a man some said was responsible for the worst slaughter in Finley Creek history. And the one man she’d tried for eighteen months to forget… The world said he was the son of a killer… But Houghton Barratt knew his father was innocent. It had to be a setup, and he was going to prove that. The only hope he had of finding his father before the TSP—and protecting everything he had worked toward for decades—lay with a former homicide detective with a serious chip on her shoulder. The woman he had never forgotten. But as Houghton schemes and manipulates to get Mel back in his arms where she belongs, the real mastermind responsible for the Marshall Murders is getting closer. Only this time he’s focused on the sisters she’d do anything to keep safe, and the woman Houghton had vowed to protect…

Author

Calle J. Brookes
Calle J. Brookes
Author · 55 books

Who is Calle Jaye Brookes? Calle Jaye is fun, playful, ironic, professional and sophisticated. She’s super-educated in the field of fiction and would spend most of her time walking around in “Book World” (or”eBook World”). Does she have slight control freak tendencies? Yep. Why else would she chose to self-publish? In her day job she gets to read romance novels. In her night job she gets to write them! Her favorite color is bold purple. She likes rock like Kid Rock, Shinedown, and Nickelback. Add in a bit of Anastacia and Adelle, too. She collects rocks. Watches crime dramas. Abhors Lifetime Movies and Titanic (especially Leo…) and refuses to read or write about sparkly teen vampires. She’s married to a cop she strongly suspects is a vampire. They’ve made vampire babies, too. They live in Indiana with their vampire relatives and their vampire dogs.

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