Part of Nikki Heat, book 8
First published 2016
A terrorist cell in New York City executes a journalist in ISIS fashion, then declares their next victim: Jameson Rook, magazine writer and husband to NYPD Captain Nikki Heat. Heat must track down the killers before they murder her husband. The case becomes personal in another way when Heat spots someone who looks exactly like her mother, a woman who died nearly two decades ago. Heat faces two impossible situations. She must stop terrorists who have already proven their willingness to kill, while questioning whether the dead can somehow return. The investigation forces Heat to confront both immediate danger and buried grief. Her professional skills as a police captain clash with her emotional turmoil as a wife and daughter. Time runs out as the terrorists prepare their next attack.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, personal-stakes
Setting: New York City
Period: 21st-century
296 pages · Hardcover · Kingswell
Content warnings: violence