Those Who Walk In Darkness - Paperback

by Jim Lavene (Author), Joyce Lavene (Author)

Three years ago in 1867, Julia Jackson was a well to do young woman from Boston whose fianc , Jonathon, was killed right before her eyes. Obsessed with finding the killer, a man whose face she saw only in a flash as he walked up and shot Jonathon, she leaves her family and her life behind. She starts a new life as 'Jacks' Jackson-a cigar smoking, dead eye, female Pinkerton agent...pretending to be a man. Now Allan Pinkerton needs Jacks to find the man who kidnapped the wife and son of a railroad official, David Boyd. Their only clues are the severed finger from the man's wife, complete with wedding ring, and a map of the Qualla boundary, the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. Jacks doesn't like the way the whole thing sounds from the beginning. David Boyd isn't important enough to target for a kidnapping. And why travel so far with two hostages? But Pinkerton tells her that he believes the man responsible for the kidnapping worked with Jonathon's murderer in a train robbery five years ago. Jacks agrees to go after the kidnapper with hopes of catching him before he can reach his home grounds. Pinkerton insists that Jacks bring three men with her-Boyd, her new partner, and a Cherokee guide named Running Wolf, who's always watching her, like he's trying to figure it out. Can Jacks catch the kidnapper with her secret-and her life-intact?

Author Biography

Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery and urban fantasy fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. Their first mystery novel, Last Dance, won the Master's Choice Award for best first mystery novel in 1999. Their romance, Flowers in the Night, was nominated for the Frankfurt Book Award in 2000. They have written and published more than 80 novels that are sold worldwide for Harlequin, Penguin, Amazon, and Simon and Schuster. They have also published hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in Midland, North Carolina with their family and their rescue pets-Rudi, Stan Lee, and Quincy. Visit them at: www.joyceandjimlavene.com www.facebook.com/joyceandjimlavene http: //amazon.com/author/jlavene https: //twitter.com/AuthorJLavene