He'd promised to attend a fund-raiser, and he couldn't back out. Tonight was the first of three black-tie affairs. He'd flown from Boston to New Orleans to speak at a law symposium on organized crime and to receive recognition he didn't believe he deserved for simply doing his job. He didn't think he was contagious, and he had too much to do to go to bed and sweat the fever out of his body. Yeah, the pulled muscle was Dylan's fault, but Theo figured that if he continued to ignore it, the pain would eventually go away.ĭamn, he was feeling like an old man these days, and he wasn't even thirty-three yet. He'd really nailed Theo during a family football game on their parents' lawn at Nathan's Bay. He decided to blame his brother, Dylan, for that ache. Except, the throbbing in his side had been going on for a couple of days now. If it was the same bug that had infected most of the staff back in his Boston office, then it was one of those twenty-four-hour things, and he should be feeling as good as new by tomorrow morning. The god-awful stitch in his side had subsided into a dull throbbing, and he was positive that it meant he was on the mend. Besides, he was sure he was over the worst of it. He refused to acknowledge that he was ill, though he was just a little off-kilter, that was all. He knew he was running a fever because every bone in his body ached and he had chills. Theo Buchanan couldn't seem to shake the virus. Michelle saved his life.now can he save hers? Excerpt Knowing what must be done, John turns to his three friends to mercy-kill his wife, but the line between mercy and murder quickly vanishes.Īs the relentless and cold-blooded Sowing Club sets out to silence Michelle, the one person who has information that could destroy them, Theo confronts the lies, greed, and evil that bind the lethal foursome-and risks more than he ever has before. The group is bound by a pact to leave the cash untouched until they accumulate a certain amount, but their leader, John, is distracted by and nearly bankrupt from his wife's grave illness. They call themselves the Sowing Club: four white-collar professionals whose sophisticated crimes have amassed millions of dollars in a Cayman Islands bank account. Michelle’s medical clinic has been vandalized, and the investigation uncovers a deadly ring of criminals bent on preserving their secrecy at any cost. Michelle Renard, a beautiful and brilliant surgeon in Bowen, Louisiana, who recently saved his own life. Unlike his brother, he works the other side of the desk as an esteemed Justice Department attorney and rarely sees on-the-field action-until he comes to the aid of Dr. Like his FBI agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devoted to his crime-fighting career. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heartbreaker comes a thrilling novel of passion and obsession featuring attorney Theo Buchanan.
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