Gone From Me Synopsis:
Their life was a fairy tale—until it all came tumbling down.
Hearts of the South, Book 10
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Amy Bennett isn’t sure when her own Prince Charming went AWOL from their marriage, but she’s certain of one thing. She wants him back. She and Rob had it all: law-enforcement careers they loved and each other. Yet somehow he’s wound up sleeping on the couch and emotionally beyond her reach.
Rob is trying to put the pieces back together, but battling his own demons while starting over in a small-town sheriff’s department is pushing him—and his marriage—to the breaking point.
His very first missing person’s case threatens to end anything but happily ever after for the families involved. Then a young man goes missing too, and the pressure has Rob reaching for the nearest lifeline. The one that’s dangling by the barest of threads—his wife.
And though Amy’s grip is strong, her love may not be enough to keep Rob from slipping away.
Product Warnings
Contains a husband who’s holding too much in, and a wife who’ll do anything to get him to let go, even meet him halfway on their last piece of common ground—in bed. Also: cop bonding between cops who talk like cops.
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Excerpt
Taped Transcript of Michael Smithwick
Interview Conducted by Investigator Robert H. Bennett
Case Number 08-10391895
June 14, 20—
MS—Michael Smithwick
RB—Investigator Robert Bennett
TF—Deputy Troy Lee Farr
RB: Okay, so the date today is June 14 and right now the exact time is 1342 hours. I’m Investigator Robert Bennett with the Chandler County Sheriff’s Office. Present with me are Deputy Troy Lee Farr with the Chandler County Sheriff’s Office and Michael Smithwick. This is in reference to case number 08-10391895. Mr. Smithwick, you live at 718 Bowles Road, is that correct?
MS: Yes.
RB: And you’ve come in today at our request, but of your free will, right? That is, we’ve closed the door for privacy’s sake, but you understand you’re free to go at any time?
MS: Yeah.
RB: All right, so…did you want anything before we started? Water, coffee?
MS: I’m good. Um, thanks though.
RB: So, Mr. Smithwick, you’re acquainted with a Zechariah Dale Jenkins Jr.?
MS: Yeah.
RB: And what is the nature of your acquaintance?
MS: What?
RB: Your acquaintance, um, your relationship…are you relatives, friends—
MS: We were cousins. I mean, friends too. We went to school together, but his mama and my stepmother were cousins, so I guess that makes us, um, third cousins by marriage.
TF: Everybody in this town is related.
RB: {Chuckles} I’m beginning to see that. So you and Mr. Jenkins—
MS: Zeke.
RB: Right, Zeke. So you and Zeke, you’re cousins by marriage, but you’re friends too.
MS: Yeah. Right.
RB: Can you tell me when was the last time you had contact, um, talked to Zeke?
MS: Yeah. About two, maybe three, days before it happened.
RB: It? When you say “it”, what exactly do you mean?
MS: I mean, the day he went missing.
Linda Winfree Bio:
How does an English teacher end up plotting murders? She uses her experiences as a cop’s wife to become a writer of romantic suspense! Linda Winfree lives in a quintessential small Georgia town with her husband and grand-dog Poe. By day, she teaches English/Language Arts and is an all-round education nerd; by night she pens sultry books full of murder and mayhem.
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