Karen Wiesner

Chris Spindler

The third collection of Falcon's Bend Detectives Pete Shasta and Danny Vincent's cases, with Patrol Officer Amber Carfi including: First Sight: Patrol Officer Amber Carfi and her partner on and off the Falcon's Bend Police Department, Warren Jensen, are facing some major life changes. They eloped a month ago, and Amber's not keen on telling her father why she'd deprived him of being present for the event--namely that she was tired of the heated "nuptials" competition with her father's bride-to-be Cora. Additionally, following an on-the-job injury that's left him unable to do his work properly, Warren is retiring early from the force. On this, his last day on the job, Amber and Warren are called to the Falcon's Bend High School. Sloane Oligney and high school math teacher Chad Martin are two of the unfortunate hostages of a troubled, violently dangerous student "JZ" who blames Sloane for his girlfriend Laura breaking up with him. Sloane's daughter Laura is the picture of popularity--good grades and a cheerleader. She'd been tutoring JZ this school year and flirting with him, not realizing how much he's fallen in love with her until it's too late. Laura uses her mother as a convenient excuse to end any potential romance when JZ tells her how he feels. But a furiously angry JZ won't let it end at that, not when he discovers that Mr. Martin has asked Sloane to speak at their Careers class. Sloane has been blind since birth but she hasn't let her disability slow her down. She's an inspiration to those around her. Still, the one mistake she believes she'd made was falling in love with the wrong person. While Laura came out of that ill-advised union and her daughter has been the best kind of blessing, she doesn't believe in "love at first sight"--certainly not the ungrounded type JZ is convinced he holds for her daughter. Nevertheless, when Sloane hears Chad's voice as he talks her down and helps her through their precarious situation, she wonders if "love at first sound" is possible...and whether they'll make it out alive to find out for sure. Identity: With his own adopted young son to guide him, Falcon's Bend Police Department Investigator Pete Shasta has been working on a relationship with both of his parents after their traumatizing divorce during his childhood. They're closer than ever before when his father is diagnosed with end-stage cancer. Pete and his brother Jordan know for sure that their younger sister Crystal, whom they'd all lost touch with years ago, should be here with them. When Pete's own investigation into her whereabouts comes up empty, they hire a private detective to find her. Unfortunately, by the time she's located, it's too late. Their father is gone, leaving an immense inheritance for all of them to share. But their sister is no longer the girl any of them remember, proving the hard lessons Pete's been learning of late: that a person's identity changes as they get older and priorities shift for better or worse. But is his sister's homecoming too little, too late...in more ways than one? Cupid's Romance: Falcon's Bend Police Department Investigator Danny Vincent is always wary when his partner Pete leaves town for any reason. In the past, he's gotten some of the strangest cases when he's on his own, and, after Pete and Lisa take leave to receive the newborn baby they're adopting, Danny and his temporary partner, Patrol Officer Amber Carfi get a doozy. Dispatch takes a call from a separated-and-on-the-verge-of-divorce newlywed, complaining of a stalker, and Danny's bad premonition gets worse. Rye Iverson doesn't know the person following him, watching his house, sending him strange little notes signed "Cupid" that insist in no uncertain terms that the Iversons continue the happily-ever-after brought about by the winged messenger of love with its Golden Arrow. Does Rye Iverson know much more than he's divulging? Out of Mind: Out of sight is not out of mind for Falcon's Bend Patrol Officer Amber Carfi, who's long-time partner and new husband has retired and she'd not sure what to make of his replacement, Fergie Giles. She knows the chief was pressured into hiring a woman, and she can't see any other reason why the defensive, closed-book Fergie would have been hired...until they get a case of a woman who insists she's being pursued by her childhood kidnapper. Hailing from Minnesota, Molly Keane is found hiding on a farm in rural Falcon's Bend and is admitted to the hospital. Though the woman insists she's running from the same kidnapper who tried to take her as a child and her journal gives a vague description of the person in question, Amber and Fergie can't find hide nor hair of the perpetrator. The woman's father tells them this event is fabricated in Molly's very confused head. Since she was five years old and fell down a steep case of stairs, hitting her head and causing a violent concussion, she's suffered from anterograde amnesia and her brain can't form any new memories for longer than 24 hours. The only thing she seems to remember is a kidnapping that never took place. Just as abruptly as she'd been discovered hiding, Molly disappears again. Amber and her new partner, who suddenly has a lot to say, begin to piece together the fifteen-year-old tragedy of a child who may never escape her trauma. Lonely Hearts: Lisa, wife of FBPD investigator Pete Shasta, is trying her hardest to avoid mystery in her very full, busy life. But when her sister-in-law confides her worries about her sister Shelley Wilson, who's had nothing but bad luck with men and has all but abandoned her daughter, Lisa also becomes worried and then downright concerned about Shelley's involvement in a "lonely hearts" support group, where she falls in love with a man accused of fraud and murder. Is Shelley again a victim or an accessory to organized crime? Assassin: FBPD investigators Pete Shasta and Danny Vincent have prayed mightily to have seen the last of FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Lock. But when he shows up in Falcon's Bend at Christmastime, they find themselves involved whether they like it or not. A pseudo Christian doomsday cult believes that the World Wide Web is evil. They've set up multiple cells around the world focused on bringing down the internet beast. According to Robert, their ringleader is the most unlikely terrorist in the world--a mouse of a man who actually runs his own successful internet business in Falcon's Bend. Robert is determined to destroy the cult from the inside out...to protect his wife Azure, the daughter of the FBI's Associate Deputy Director, who's not only involved in the cult but has been sent to prove her loyalty to them by killing him...

Falcon's Bend Case Files, Volume III

The third collection of FalconÕs Bend Detectives Pete Shasta and Danny Vincent's cases, with Patrol Officer Amber Carfi. First Sight: A troubled student holds a gun on a teacher and another studentÕs mother. Identity: Is Pete's long-lost sisterÕs homecoming too little, too lateÉin more ways than one? Cupid's Romance: An on-the-verge-of-divorce newlywed complains of a stalker that signs ""Cupid"" to every threat. Out of Mind: A woman on the run insists she's being pursued by a childhood kidnapper. Lonely Hearts: A sister-in-lawÕs sibling gets involved in a Òlonely heartsÓ support group. Is she the victim or an accessory to organized crime? Assassin: FBI agent Robert Lock is undercover protecting his wife who's not only involved in the cult heÕs investigating but has to prove her loyalty by killing himÉ

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