CHAPTER SIX
Early in the morning, in his hotel room outside of Dallas, U.S. Marshal Kane Wilcox studied the file on Mia North for the hundredth time, trying to see what made this woman tick.
He knew about her family—all of them, in law enforcement. He knew about Samuel, Jr., who’d been abducted from a department store when he was nine. He knew that she’d been top of her class in college and at Quantico. He knew that she had made a name for herself, solving cold cases, and was a respected member of the team until she’d gone off the rails over this stalker case.
That had to have been a shock to the people she worked with. Ten years with the Feds, ten years of busting cases and following the rules, only to murder a lowlife scumbag in cold blood?
Supposedly, the guy, Ellis Horvath, had bee
