Chris Englund has been offered $500,000 to throw the Kentucky Derby. Now he must choose: between temptation and truth, between honesty and his life. The prize isn’t just a garland of Derby roses. If he throws the race, he’ll betray the hard-won honor he’s sacrificed so much for. If he rides to win, he’ll destroy the horse and lose the woman he loves.

Show-jumping rider and trainer Robb Slaughter should have been too young to remember watching his mother being murdered.

But he remembered how long she screamed because she never stopped.

Now Robb has to find out who tried to kill a Grand-Prix jumper champion and deliver the true justice that will finally stop the screams. 

But buying that kind of justice will take smarts and cunning and lies. And a willingness to kill if that’s what justice means.

In Three Strides Out, set in the ultra-competitive world of champion horse-show jumping, Robb’s search for the monsters who kill horses for money leads to a hard truth about himself, and a brutal truth about the woman he loves.

Sarah’s daughter Anna has been missing for six years and counting. The cops gave up long ago. But now a dead child may have something to tell Sarah about what happened to Anna . . . if she can make the dead talk.

And she has a new ally who wants to bring justice to Sarah’s unfaithful and lying ex-husband every bit as much as she does. They’ve given up on patience and caution. They’ll do whatever they have to. They can smell blood among the lies. 

Among the Lost Children is the three-book story of Sarah’s search for her daughter and her own sanity amid desperate choices that test her courage and will.

 

University professor Sarah Crockett’s eleven-year-old daughter disappeared five years ago. The only person still looking for her is Sarah. “Give up on all those fairy-tale stories,” her ex-husband tells her. “Kidnapped kids don’t come back when they’ve been gone that long.”You should know, she wants to tell him. Since you killed her.Did he? Maybe her child is still out there. Waiting for her mother to find her. But no one else will ask the questions it will take to find out.Until into her life walks Russell Pierce, a software magnate who also has a lost daughter. Eighteen-year-old Thomasina is running from him. No surprise: the girl thinks he murdered her mother, his wife.“I ...