Some secrets are worth killing for. Some are worth dying to expose.
When a brilliant and popular college student disappears without a trace from Skyline Community College in Grandview, a small, yet thriving school with a championship football team, investigative reporter Samantha Church expects to find another case of youthful recklessness gone too far.
Instead, she finds a murder.
The deeper Sam digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Behind the trophies, money and championship banners lies something far darker.
With the help of an unwilling professor on the verge of a major milestone, the college’s star quarterback and a long-suffering maintenance worker who knows more about the campus than anyone realizes, Sam slowly begins to uncover what the college has really been recruiting for.
Athletes aren’t the only ones being selected. A mastermind is secretly operating a long-running and lucrative human smuggling operation, an underground network that exploits vulnerable migrants desperate for a new beginning. Even more troubling, the operation has quietly drawn in students from the college itself—naive young men tempted by the promise of fast, easy money.
The young woman’s murder may be the one absolute mistake that finally brings everything crashing down. Because the mastermind made one fatal error: He fell in love with his victim.
His final act of murder is the beginning of the end.
Each layer of discovery reveals the network’s astonishing scale and sophistication, spanning borders and blurring the lines between victims, perpetrators and accomplices. But as Sam gets closer to the killer and revealing the real truth, the stakes grow higher and more deadly. Can she expose the popular student’s murderer and bring the others to justice—or will she become the killer’s next victim?
Dusk is a gripping tale of deception, betrayal and redemption that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last page. With its intricate plot twists and compelling characters, this latest installment in the Samantha Church Mystery Series will captivate fans of suspense and intrigue alike.
Genre: Mystery
When a brilliant and popular college student disappears without a trace from Skyline Community College in Grandview, a small, yet thriving school with a championship football team, investigative reporter Samantha Church expects to find another case of youthful recklessness gone too far.
Instead, she finds a murder.
The deeper Sam digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Behind the trophies, money and championship banners lies something far darker.
With the help of an unwilling professor on the verge of a major milestone, the college’s star quarterback and a long-suffering maintenance worker who knows more about the campus than anyone realizes, Sam slowly begins to uncover what the college has really been recruiting for.
Athletes aren’t the only ones being selected. A mastermind is secretly operating a long-running and lucrative human smuggling operation, an underground network that exploits vulnerable migrants desperate for a new beginning. Even more troubling, the operation has quietly drawn in students from the college itself—naive young men tempted by the promise of fast, easy money.
The young woman’s murder may be the one absolute mistake that finally brings everything crashing down. Because the mastermind made one fatal error: He fell in love with his victim.
His final act of murder is the beginning of the end.
Each layer of discovery reveals the network’s astonishing scale and sophistication, spanning borders and blurring the lines between victims, perpetrators and accomplices. But as Sam gets closer to the killer and revealing the real truth, the stakes grow higher and more deadly. Can she expose the popular student’s murderer and bring the others to justice—or will she become the killer’s next victim?
Dusk is a gripping tale of deception, betrayal and redemption that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last page. With its intricate plot twists and compelling characters, this latest installment in the Samantha Church Mystery Series will captivate fans of suspense and intrigue alike.
Genre: Mystery