Eleventh Hour [Paperback]

When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola Nick Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she's trying to hide from her own monsters-who are drawing closer and closer.

The chase goes from San Francisco to the Premiere Studios in Los Angeles and its new television hit, a show all about murder.

VINTAGE COULTER: exciting, enthralling and totally mesmerizing. -BookBrowser

Fast-paced romantic [and] suspenseful. -Booklist

Catherine Coulteris the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the FBI Thrillers featuring husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. She is also the author—with J. T. Ellison—of the Brit in the FBI series. She lives in Sausalito, California.S A N F R A N C I S C O

Nick sat quietly in the midnight gloom of the nave,

hunched forward, her head in her arms resting on the pew

in front of her. She was here because Father Michael

Joseph had begged her to come, had begged her to let him

help her. The least she could do was talk to him, couldn’t

she? She’d wanted to come late, when everyone else was

already home asleep, when the streets were empty, and

he’d agreed, even smiled at her. He was a fine man, kind

and loving toward his fellow man and toward God.

Would she wait? She sighed at the thought. She’d given

her word, he’d made her give her word, known somehow

that it would keep her here. She watched him walk over to

the confessional, watched with surprise as his step suddenly

lagged, and he paused a moment, his hand reaching

for the small handle on the confessional door. He didn’t

want to open that door, she thought, staring at him. He

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