Hearing the words, Dawn-who’d once held the same position Kaitlyn now did-had felt a sudden clutch in her gut. It seems her twenty-one-year old-son, Evan, was deathly ill and in need of a kidney transplant. As Dawn settled in to wait, Kaitlyn chatted with her boss’s wife, mentioning in passing that one of the practice’s former patients, Alexandra Munsey, had come by earlier in the day asking for her records so she could be put in touch with her son’s sperm donor. When she’d stopped by the office to see him on a May afternoon back in 2003, her husband’s relatively new blond-bombshell receptionist, a dim bulb named Kaitlyn, told her that he was with a patient but that he’d be right out. As a consequence, she had firsthand knowledge of Edward’s secrets and lies, especially the ones she personally had helped him create. Back before her ex-husband divorced his first wife and before Dawn and Edward married, she’d worked as a nurse/receptionist in his fertility practice in Santa Clarita, California, just north of L.A.

Excerptĭawn Gilchrist was beautiful if not particularly bright. In this gripping suspense novel from “one of the finest practitioners of the suspenseful thriller” ( The Strand Magazine), Ali Reynolds and her team race against the clock to stop this ruthless killer-before her own name is crossed out for good. Tattooed on his arm are the initials of those who put him behind bars, and he won’t stop until every person on that Annihilation List is dead. Life without parole won’t stop him from getting his revenge. Edward Gilchrist has not forgotten those responsible for his downfall-especially not Ali Reynolds, who exposed his dirty deeds to the world. She has a new house, a new husband, and a flourishing cybersecurity company where her team of veritable technological wizards hunts down criminals one case at a time.īut the death of an old friend brings Ali back to the last story she ever reported: a feel-good human interest piece about a young man in need of a kidney to save his life, which quickly spiraled into a medical mismanagement scandal that landed a prestigious local doctor in prison for murder.

More than ten years after the sudden end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. Jance, Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished. In this timely “devilish page-turner” ( People) from New York Times bestselling author J.A.

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