
Genre:
Mystery
Themes:
Angsty
Family Relationships
Interracial / Multicultural Relationship
Kidnapping / Disappearance
Married or Established Couple
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Nerdy / Geeky
Opposites Attract
Pregnancy
Religion
Workplace / Office Romance
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Doctor / Nurse / EMT / Midwife
Law Enforcement
Geographic Location:
United States: Midwest
United States: South
Setting:
Police Station / Precinct
Prison
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Femme
Tomboy
Protagonist Identity:
Biracial / Multiracial
Trigger/Content Warning:
Child abuse
With Child
The Detective Amy Sadler Series, Book 3
By Michelle Arnold
Just as Lira is about to bring her own child into the world, she learns she's not who she thought she was.
Homicide Detective Amy Sadler is overjoyed: her wife, forensic pathologist Lira Ward, is pregnant with their first child. Life couldn’t be better, although Amy soon finds that impending motherhood has made her a little more sensitive to cases involving children, such as the small girl found at the bottom of a pool.
An investigation into the child’s family and possibly not-so-accidental death leads Amy into the twisted world of an isolated country church with extreme ideas, a world of child abuse and subjugated women. Amy’s gut tells her there are sinister things happening beneath the church’s picture-perfect public image, but proving it is another matter.
Then a man shows up claiming to be Lira’s father, and everything Lira thought she knew about herself is turned on its head. Now as Amy struggles to prove her suspicions about the cult-like church before more children are hurt, she must also find a way to protect Lira from her own past.