Audio Book Description:
When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up in bed with the handsome and hard- partying Jay Burgess, a rising detective in the Charleston PD, sheremembers nothing of how she got there...or how Jay wound up dead. Five years earlier, Jay was a hero of a disastrous fire at Charleston`spolice headquarters, which would have been even deadlierif not for the braveryof Jay and three other city officials who led othersto safety. Firefighter Raley Gannon, Jay`s lifelong friend, had been assigned to investigate the fire, but theinvestigation ended in ascandal that shattered Raley`s world, and forced him to surrender the woman he loved and the work to which he`d dedicated his life. For five yearshis resentment has festered, but he was helpless to set things right. That changes when he learns of Jay`s shocking death. As suspicion againstBritt Shelley mounts, Raley realizes that the newswoman might be his only chance to get personal vindication-and justicefor the seven victims of thepolice station fire. But there are powerful men who don`t want to address unanswered questions about the fire, and will go to any lengths toprotect their reputations. As Raley and Britt disover more about what happened that fateful day, they realize that they`re not only chasing afterthe truth but running for theirlives. SMOKE SCREEN is Sandra Brown`s most intense novel yet.
