The Scent of
Humanity
Author: Margay Leah Justice
Publisher: Margay Leah Justice
Pages: 552
Genre: Romantic Suspense/Women’s Fiction
Format: Kindle
Book Description:
Lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. In
theory. But in one small town, in one family, that theory is put to the test.
Growing up in a rural town in Massachusetts was supposed to be safe, but
for SILVIE CHILDS, that safety was shattered by a kidnapping attempt that
forever changed her life. Now, nearly twenty years later, that sense of safety
is challenged again by the kidnapping attempt on her young niece, and Silvie is
left struggling with one question: How can something like this happen twice in
one family?
It is a dilemma shared by NICK FAHEY, the
detective assigned to the case. Arriving on the scene of the abduction attempt,
Nick expects to run a routine investigation. Until he meets the victim, the
niece of a woman he once considered a dear friend. Unfortunately, these days
Silvie Childs can barely stand the sight of him.
Once there was a time when Silvie Childs
worshipped Nick Fahey, believing he could do no wrong. Until the accident that
nearly killed her brother; the accident that Nick reportedly caused. Coming on
the heels of her own near abduction, the accident skewed Silvie’s ability to
trust men – especially Nick. But now, with the attempt on her niece’s safety,
Silvie finds herself in the untenable position of having to trust Nick to bring
the kidnapper to justice.
That trust is severely tested when, after only
two months, the case is closed for lack of new evidence. Feeling betrayed by
the system in which she works as a paralegal and by Nick, Silvie takes matters
into her own hands. Contacting local news stations to generate interest in the
case, allowing herself to be filmed hanging sketches of the suspect on
telephone poles, she will risk her own safety to protect that of her niece.
When her efforts re-open the wounds of her past, she is once again forced to
put her trust in the one man who still has the power to hurt her – Nick
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