Wildfire, Chapter 1: An Open Door
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Wildfires swept across California wine country in 2017, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and killing dozens of people. Law school grad and single mother Tara Rezeck finds herself in the middle of the catastrophe, forced to evacuate with the rest of the staff of Sonoma County's most award-winning vineyard. When she returns to her job, she finds her employer's body in the ashes.
The question that challenges her brains and her legal training is: was it an accident? Or was his body burned to hide evidence of murder?
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𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨, 𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱¹
❛ 𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 ... ❜ 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚡 𝚓𝚊𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚐𝚘 𝚙𝚍, 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 - 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝟷 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 ... 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 - 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝟷 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜: 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚜: 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚢 𝚖𝚎 ©𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚢𝟸𝟶 (𝚚𝟸𝟶 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚜), 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟿Concluida
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