In This Life, Believe Me
Detective Evelyn Mercer gave four years of her life to infiltrating Victor Kane’s deadly drug empire. When her identity was exposed, she endured torture rather than betray a single fellow officer. But the people she loved never learned the truth. Her father signed her arrest warrant. Adrian Cole—the man she had loved for years—hunted her as a traitor. And Natalie Shaw, the best friend Evelyn once saved, quietly stepped into the life she left behind. Three years after Evelyn was thrown into the Atlantic, her remains finally surface. Hidden evidence reveals her innocence and exposes the woman who betrayed her. Adrian confesses his love beside Evelyn’s grave, but his answer has come far too late. Then Evelyn opens her eyes on her twenty-fourth birthday—the night everything first went wrong. This time, she remembers. So do her father and Adrian. Natalie does not. Evelyn could walk away from the badge, the mission, and the man who failed to believe her. Instead, she chooses to return undercover, save the officers who died in her first life, and turn her betrayer into the trap that will destroy Victor Kane. But history is already changing, and loving Adrian again may be more dangerous than facing the criminal who once killed her.
Index
11 Chapters- 1. Chapter 1 — The Traitor They Couldn’t Find
- 2. Chapter 2 — Blood Beneath the Warehouse Floor
- 3. Chapter 3 — The Skull From the Harbor
- 4. Chapter 4 — The Grave Where He Confessed
- 5. Chapter 5 — My Twenty-Fourth Birthday—Again
- 6. Chapter 6 — This Time, We Use the Betrayer
- 7. Chapter 7 — The Message Natalie Never Meant to Send
- 8. Chapter 8 — Back Inside the Devil’s House
- 9. Chapter 9 — The Gift Graves Insisted I Wear
- 10. Chapter 10 — His Thumb on the Red Button
- 11. Chapter 11 — The Life We Chose
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