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I was there. I saw what you did.

Blaise

I wasn’t supposed to be there that night, but my friend Sienna talked me into going to the party in Land’s End so she could spy on her boyfriend. While hiding out in the woods, we witnessed an unspeakable crime. And we did everything wrong afterward.

Connections run deep in our small town.

I was pressured into keeping my mouth shut, even though every part of me objected. I assumed I’d always do the right thing in any situation. I was wrong about that and a lot of other things.

I was wrecked by what I saw and how the victim was treated by kids I’d known all my life. I’ve been sick over it ever since, even as I moved on, far away from the town where I was raised.

Fourteen years later, I learn that the guy who committed that unspeakable crime is running for Congress, and something in me snaps.

I can’t bear the weight of that knowledge for another second.

Finally, I report what I saw, and all hell breaks loose for me and others who were at that long-ago party. Some of them will do whatever it takes to keep the truth from coming to light…even if they have to kill me.

In the midst of an epic battle, a new love gives me the strength to stay strong, to fight for my life and to right a terrible wrong.

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: In the Air Tonight

Marie Force

Expected Release Date: 24 September 2024

A riveting new page-turner is coming next week from Marie Force, and I have a little sneak peek for you.

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Jack is too cute for his own good—and mine. And it occurs to me that before he decides he might like me, he needs to know why I came to town in the first place. Hearing my story might make him never want to see me again.

After he washes his hands, he dries them on a towel as he studies me. “Hey. What’s wrong?”

I shake it off and force a smile. “Nothing.”

“Something…”

“I want to tell you why I’m here, but I’m afraid you won’t want to be friends with me anymore.”

“And it would bother you if we weren’t friends anymore?”

I think he might be asking about more than just basic friendship. “Yeah, I think it would.”

He surprises me when he tosses the towel aside, takes my hand and leads me into a cozy living room with a wood-burning stove and two full walls of bookshelves.

I scan the shelves stuffed with books. “All this, and you read.”

“I saw a thing once advising women to quickly run for their lives if they come to a guy’s house and he has no books. So I bought these at a yard sale.”

“You did not.”

Laughing, he says, “Made you wonder, though, didn’t I?”

He’s fun, funny, handsome, talented, smart, sexy, sweet and kind. He’s all the things. And he deserves to know what I did before he decides if he wants to spend more time with me.

When we sit next to each other on the sofa, he doesn’t release my hand.

I’m one hundred percent sure that if I give even the slightest tug, he’ll let go instantly. The only fear I have of this man is the possibility of losing my heart to him. I’ve never experienced this kind of connection before, and I’d be sad to lose him before I ever got the chance to really know him.

“Whatever it is, it can’t be that bad.”

“It is. It’s terrible.”

He turns to face me. “Tell me.”

I fix my gaze on the far wall, so I won’t have to see his revulsion when I confess my sin to him. “When I was almost seventeen, I witnessed a crime. For many reasons that made sense to me at the time, I didn’t report what I saw. Keeping that secret for fourteen years has all but wrecked me, and this week, I finally reported it. That’s why I’m here.”