Wyoming Christmas Ransom
This Christmas, a killer is ready to finish what he started.He didn’t need her to care, so why did Wyoming loner Will Cooper’s world implode when Gracie Delaney quit helping him solve his estranged wife’s murder? Despite her ties to a rival family, the beautiful coroner had been the stubborn recluse’s one link to humanity—and his last chance to clear the cloud hanging over him.But when Will and Gracie become the killer’s next target, reviving their platonic partnership is the only option. If only Gracie’s lips weren’t so tempting…
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A killer has been hiding for two years.
This Christmas, heâs ready to finish what he started.
He didnât need her to care, so why did Wyoming loner Will Cooperâs world implode when Gracie Delaney quit helping him solve his estranged wifeâs murder? Despite her ties to a rival family, the beautiful coroner had been the stubborn recluseâs one link to humanityâand his last chance to clear the cloud hanging over him. But when Will and Gracie become the killerâs next target, reviving their platonic partnership is the only option. If only Gracieâs lips werenât so tempting...
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NICOLE HELM grew up with her nose in a book and the dream of one day becoming a writer. Luckily, after a few failed career choices, she gets to follow that dreamâwriting down-to-earth contemporary romance and romantic suspense. From farmers to cowboys, Midwest to the West, Nicole writes stories about people finding themselves and finding love in the process. She lives in Missouri with her husband and two sons and dreams of someday owning a barn.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07959-4
WYOMING CHRISTMAS RANSOM
© 2018 Nicole Helm
Published in Great Britain 2018
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To my husband, who also almost always answers my
questions with âThat wouldnât happen,â but indulges me when I say âBut could it happen?â
Contents
Gracie Delaney didnât care for the nickname âAngel of Death,â but in Bent, Wyoming, it was something of the truth. If she came to a personâs door unannounced, they knew what was coming.
The fact that she was young, maybe a little girl-next-door looking, no longer fooled people. As the coroner for Bent County, Gracieâs work was death.
It wasnât as bad as some people made it out to be. Considering her parents had died in a car crash when sheâd been six, and she was the lone survivor of said crash, sheâd been intimately acquainted with death her whole life.
Funny, life was a lot harder than death. Death was easy, and it was final. The cause might occasionally be a mystery, but it was a mystery she always solved.
Gracie blew out a breath as she parked her car in Will Cooperâs yard. Life, meanwhile, had a hundred mysteries she couldnât figure out. Like why two years after sheâd informed Will Cooper of his wifeâs death, she still came to check in on him routinely.
Sheâd informed a lot of people of their loved onesâ deaths over the course of two years, and while some reactions stuck with her, maybe a few even haunted her, only Willâs reaction had ever caused her to act outside a professional capacity.
She supposed it was the fact he couldnât accept his wife had simply skidded off the road and crashed into a tree. He insisted the detectives had missed or overlooked things. Heâd become obsessed with proving foul play.
