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  “Is your talent agent Hank Derringer?”

  She nodded, her brows furrowing. How many people in Fool’s Fortune knew she was coming and that Hank Derringer had sent her? Immediately on guard, she sized up the man in front of her. He was tall, darkly handsome, with a face that could have been on the silver screen. “As a matter of fact, Hank is my agent.” Or rather, she was Hank’s secret agent. “Your name is Chase. It wouldn’t be—”

  “Chase Marsden.” The man’s lip curled upward on one side, his blue eyes dancing with the reflection of the streetlights. “Pleasure to meet you, Ms. Rivers.”

  “Oh, dear.” Her heart fluttered and butterfly wings beat against the insides of her belly. She glanced around as the sheriff’s deputy jotted notes on an electronic pad. Kate lowered her voice. “I guess you needed...a singer more than I realized.”

  “I wasn’t the one I was hiring you for. I wanted you to provide backup to Sadie. She’s the star.”

  Kate’s eyes widened. “Sadie, the woman on her way to the hospital as we speak?”

  He nodded.

  “I take it the situation has gotten a lot more dangerous than you’d originally let on.” She glanced around. “Looks as though I’m a day late.”

  Copyright © 2015 by Mary Jernigan

  ISBN-13: 9781460388280

  Scene of the Crime: The Deputy’s Proof

  Copyright © 2015 by Carla Bracale

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