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Cash’s heart seized in his chest, all breath gone, all reason evading him as he stared at the woman standing in the doorway.
“Jasmine.” Her name was out before he could call it back.
She looked startled, as if she hadn’t seen him standing at the back of the office.
His heart lodged in his throat, his senses telling him something his mind refused to accept now that her car had been found. Jasmine was alive?
“I…I…” She started to turn as if to leave and he finally found his feet, lunging forward to stop her, half-afraid she was nothing more than a puff of smoke that would vanish the moment he touched her.
She took a step back, seeming afraid, definitely startled. Cash stopped just feet from her, struggling to believe what was before his eyes. My God, could it really be her? Jasmine?
Alive?
Ambushed!
B.J. Daniels
MILLS & BOON
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This book is dedicated to Teagan and Hayden.
Thank you, baby girls, for all the hugs and kisses.
I can’t tell you what the tea parties with you two mean to me. I love you both dearly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former award-winning journalist, B.J. had thirty-six short stories published before her first romantic suspense, Odd Man Out, came out in 1995. Her book Premeditated Marriage won Romantic Times Best Intrigue award for 2002 and she received a Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense. B.J. lives in Montana with her husband, Parker, three springer spaniels, Zoey, Scout and Spot, and a temperamental tomcat named Jeff. She is a member of Kiss of Death, the Bozeman Writer’s Group and Romance Writers of America. When she isn’t writing, she snowboards in the winters and camps, water-skis and plays tennis in the summers. To contact her, write: P.O. Box 183, Bozeman, MT 59771 or look for her online at www.bjdaniels.com.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Molly Kilpatrick—Desperate for a place to hide, she made the mistake of stealing the wrong woman’s identity.
Sheriff Cash McCall—For seven years he prayed that his fiancée was alive—but not for the reason anyone suspected. Now he’s falling for her double—a woman marked for murder.
Jasmine Wolfe—Only her killer knows what happened to her after she disappeared seven years ago.
Teresa Clark—A bartender who never forgets a face would get herself killed.
Kerrington Landow—He is obsessed with Jasmine. But to the point where he would have done anything to have her—or make sure no one else did?
Patty Franklin—She was good at keeping other people’s secrets. But does she have a few of her own she’d kept under wraps?
Bernard Wolfe—With his stepsister dead, he gets the family fortune. With her alive, he could lose everything.
Sandra Perkins Landow—She and Jasmine shared more than a room. They shared a man and that could be deadly.
Vince Winslow—After fifteen years in prison, he only wants to find Molly and get what he has coming.
Angel Edwards—Prison made him more bloodthirsty. Pity anyone who gets in his way.
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Epilogue
Chapter One
Tuesday
Outside Antelope Flats, Montana
The abandoned barn loomed out of the rain soaked landscape, the roof partially gone, a gaping black hole where the doors had once been.
Sheriff Cash McCall pulled his patrol car up next to Humphrey’s pickup. Through the blurred thumping of the wipers, Cash could see Humphrey Perkins behind the steering wheel, waiting.
Cash cut the engine and listened to the steady drum of the rain on the patrol car roof, not anxious to go inside that barn. Hadn’t he known? Hadn’t he always known?
Steeling himself, he pulled up the hood on his raincoat and stepped out of the patrol car. Humphrey didn’t move, just watched as Cash walked past his pickup toward the barn.
Five minutes ago, Humphrey had called him. “I found something, Cash.” The old farmer had sounded scared, as if wishing someone else was making this call, that someone else had found what had been hidden in the barn. “You know the old Trayton homestead on the north side of the lake?”
Everyone knew the place. The land had been tied up in a family estate for years, the dilapidated house boarded up, the barn falling down. There were No Trespassing signs posted all around the property, but Humphrey
