Kate Donovan: Parallel Lies

He had no intention of sharing information with her. At least, not willingly. But thanks to the global positioning device, she would track his every movement. If he got a lead on her sister’s location, Sabrina would head there as soon as he made his move.

And in the meantime, maybe she’d find the location first. Zack was wasting his time going to Sacramento. If there had been any clues at Shelby’s house, Sabrina would have found them already.

They needed to focus on the kidnapper, not her sister. And so Sabrina would study the files using her training and instincts to get inside the kidnapper’s head. Then she’d take her father’s bag of tricks—and her gun—and go hunting.

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is the author of more than a dozen novels and novellas, ranging from time travel and paranormal to historical romance, suspense and romantic comedy. An attorney, she draws on her criminal law background to create challenges worthy of her heroines, who crack safes, battle wizards and always get their man. As for Kate, she definitely got her man and is living happily ever after with him and their two children in Elk Grove, California.

This book is dedicated to my parents

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Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

When the cell phone on her nightstand began to ring, twenty-year-old Sabrina Sullivan went from soundly sleeping to fully alert in an instant. The fact that it was 2:00 a.m. only heightened her instinctive response. After all, this particular phone had one purpose and one purpose only—for her father to contact her in case of an emergency. And given “Sully” Sullivan’s dangerous lifestyle, an emergency seemed to lurk around every intrigue-laden corner.

Flipping open the phone, Sabrina said simply, “Dad?”

“Sweetheart, this is Uncle Theo. I’m standing outside the door to your apartment. I didn’t want to knock and scare you, but I need to talk to you.”

The daughter’s heart began to pound. “Is he hurt bad? Is he even alive? Uncle Theo—”

“Come to the door, Breezie.”

“Right.” She jumped to her feet and sprinted from her small bedroom into the study area of the dorm suite she shared with her sister Michelle. Then she yanked open the door, ready to demand a million details.

But the expression on Theo Howell’s face told her everything she needed to know, and it did so with the force of a well-aimed kick to her solar plexus. “Oh, no…”

“Breezie.” He pulled her into a bear hug. “I’m so sorry.”

Tears stung her eyes. “He was here just last week for a visit. He looked so h-healthy. What happened?”

“He was murdered, hon. By Adonis Zenner.”

Sabrina pulled free, shocked by the announcement, and perversely grateful for the rush of white-hot hatred that chased her tears away.

“Zenner?” She practically hissed the name. “How did he get into the country?”

“We don’t know. We don’t know anything yet.”

“This is the thanks Dad gets for tracking that psycho’s father down? We knew Adonis might try to get revenge for Pluto. Didn’t we take precautions?”

“Come and sit with me,” Theo advised, adding over his shoulder, “you men secure the premises.”

Sabrina winced as two middle-aged men dressed in black pants and black shirts strode past her. She hadn’t even noticed the burly pair of strangers. Her father would be so disappointed in her.

Except her father was dead.

“Is this the only window?” one man was asking. “What about in there?”

“My sister’s in there. Sleeping. And of course there’s no window,” she added, insulted at the implication that she’d let Michelle sleep alone in a room with exterior access. Then she bit her lip, realizing for the first time that this nightmare was about to invade her younger sister’s world, as well.

“I should wake her up,” she told her uncle. “Zenner’s trail is getting colder by the second.”

“There’s a decision to be made, Brie. Your father would want you to make it. You’re the oldest.”

“A decision?” She felt her temper flare. “You mean, like funeral stuff? Who cares! We have to go after Adonis before he gets out of the country.”

Theo’s gaze was steady and direct. “We think he’ll come after you and Michelle next.”

“What?”

“When your father killed Pluto, he wiped out Adonis’s whole family. He might want to return the favor.”

Sabrina turned to stare at the closed door to Michelle’s room. Then she sank down onto the sofa next to Theo. “We need to get her to someplace safe. Immediately.”

“We need to get you both someplace safe,” he corrected her. “There are two choices. My home in Monterey. Or a safe house here in Boston, which would be a stopover on your way into a protection program.”

“A protection program?”

“The government offered us two spots in RAP. That’s a relocation assistance program for compromised agents and their families, similar to witness protection.”