Last Chance

A missing girl, a sleuth in training, and family secrets with deadly consequences.Janet Black, the feisty bar owner and apprentice PI in Knoxville, Tennessee, is back, and she's taken a job her mentor told her to run from: finding a missing teenage girl.But with her computer-expert boyfriend, and an ear fine-tuned for gossip from her years as a bartender, she figures she's just the right person to make a difference.As she dives into the case, though, she finds that the mother's not telling the whole story, setting Janet up for a dangerous discovery. And trouble never comes alone. Her bar is flagged for liquor-code violations, a construction project gets out of hand, and she uncovers weird, possibly criminal, obsessions in her new chef.Janet refuses to acknowledge she's out of her depth-and thinks she just needs more time to put the puzzle pieces together and find the girl. But when a dead body surfaces, her world view is shaken. Suddenly, finding the missing girl is more than just an altruistic act. Her very life depends on it. As the sinister plot twists ever closer to her own life, Janet is faced with a dilemma. When it comes to the ones you love, how many chances are too many?Last Chance is the third book in the Janet Black Mystery Series. Devour it today.