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Some choices can cost you everything...
Ruth is the only one who doesn't want to go.
At first, even she wonders if jealousy is clouding her judgment. Then a routine background check by a federal-agent friend turns up something that doesn't fit. Ruth starts digging into Aaron's ex and finds more questions than answers. The deeper she goes, the more convinced she becomes that the offer isn't what it appears to be.
Aaron sees something else: a wife looking for reasons to distrust a woman he once loved.
For the first time, the partnership that has survived killers, kidnappings and everything else thrown against it begins to fracture. Aaron takes the children to California to look at houses and explore the life waiting for them there. Ruth stays behind in Texas.
Alone.
Because Ruth has become convinced that their arch enemy is behind all of it. The offer. The timing. Perhaps even the woman herself. And while Aaron is hundreds of miles away, Ruth follows the last thread connecting their enemy to the nightmare that has consumed their lives for a year.
It leads exactly where he wants her to go.
This time there is no Aaron Tate beside her. No partner coming through the door. No one who even knows where she is.
And if Ruth Baker has finally found the man she's been hunting, she may have walked willingly into the deadliest trap he has ever built.
Genre: Mystery
Some choices can cost you everything...
After a year of bloodshed, manipulation and death, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate finally believe they are closing in on the serial killer who has haunted their lives. Then Aaron receives an offer that could change everything.
An old girlfriend has come back into his life. Beautiful, newly divorced and now a billionaire, she offers Aaron an extraordinary opportunity in California—one lucrative enough to transform the future of their entire family. Their three children are thrilled. Aaron begins to wonder whether the time has finally come to leave Texas behind.Ruth is the only one who doesn't want to go.
At first, even she wonders if jealousy is clouding her judgment. Then a routine background check by a federal-agent friend turns up something that doesn't fit. Ruth starts digging into Aaron's ex and finds more questions than answers. The deeper she goes, the more convinced she becomes that the offer isn't what it appears to be.
Aaron sees something else: a wife looking for reasons to distrust a woman he once loved.
For the first time, the partnership that has survived killers, kidnappings and everything else thrown against it begins to fracture. Aaron takes the children to California to look at houses and explore the life waiting for them there. Ruth stays behind in Texas.
Alone.
Because Ruth has become convinced that their arch enemy is behind all of it. The offer. The timing. Perhaps even the woman herself. And while Aaron is hundreds of miles away, Ruth follows the last thread connecting their enemy to the nightmare that has consumed their lives for a year.
It leads exactly where he wants her to go.
This time there is no Aaron Tate beside her. No partner coming through the door. No one who even knows where she is.
And if Ruth Baker has finally found the man she's been hunting, she may have walked willingly into the deadliest trap he has ever built.
CHOOSING TEXAS is an intensely personal, high-stakes Baker & Tate thriller about love, loyalty, suspicion, and the choices that can change a family forever.
Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.Genre: Mystery