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The Wrong Instinct

Reads 145
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Parts 12
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Reads 145
Votes 22
Parts 12
Time 58m

Mature

crime crimefiction criminal detective fbi mature mystery police romance solving

[🏅 featured twice on Romance's reading list]

Alexa Bailey is a homicide detective who was shot in the line of duty. A year later, she is finally cleared to be on the field and has been on a streak ever since she has returned. 

But when a familiar name comes up in an ongoing investigation, she turns to an unexpected person--someone she arrested for second degree murder years ago.  

Ty Archer is charming in his own kind of way. Bound to a cell for the rest of his life, the last thing he anticipated was to be needed by someone who had put him there in the first place. 

With the sudden entertainment in his hand, she knows he holds the key to cracking her case wide open. He is not making it easy. But Alexa has been playing this game for a long time. She knows all of his moves.

Except one.

The one that makes him her partner.All Rights Reserved

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The Chaos Within: The Love that Remains

All Tyla Hemmings wanted to do, was to finish high school, go to college and perhaps get married to her best friend, and boyfriend, Colton Adams. But all of that changes when she unexpectedly meets a handsome stranger one afternoon, and a serial goes on a rampage in her small town. When Tyla's initial attraction to mysterious Alexander Black evolves into something much stronger, she is left with the trouble of deciding what to do about her feelings as they continue to grow stronger. Lurking in the shadows, a vengeful serial killer sets out to destroy the lives of many, with one ultimate target in mind. Tyla Hemmings. A killer, who if left on the loose, will become one of the most deadly, unstoppable serial killers of all time. Follow Tyla in her journey with Alexander in their whirl wind of a relationship and as she sets out to become one of the greatest detectives to have lived in the small town she calls home. As she fights through every odd, to catch the vengeful force who threatens to destroy her until there is nothing left of her. What happens when love and trust turns into the biggest pain and betrayal Tyla has ever felt? Calling all mystery hunters to embark on the case of catching a killer that left the town rattled and reeling.