I’m not a twin so I can’t say based on real-life experience, but there are lots of stories about twins having a very special connection. It was that concept that inspired the story in Cold Case Reopened. The heroine, Rhea Reilly, is a twin whose sister has been declared dead only Rhea still feels her sister and wants the police to reopen her case. The hero, Jackson Whitaker, is a detective who has been assigned to convince Rhea to drop the case, but when he meets her and sees the evidence she gathered, he realizes that he has to reopen the case and find out what really happened to Rhea’s sister Selene. Today I’ve got a little teaser for you from the beginning of Cold Case Reopened.
Teaser
It was hard to believe that such beauty possibly held unspeakable evil.
Rhea Reilly stood on the shore of the mountain lake where six months earlier her twin sister, Selene, had disappeared on a cold fall night.
Her artist’s eye took in the scene before her. The waters of the lake sparkled like diamonds beneath a sunny cerulean sky. At the farthest end of the lake, the waters tumbled over a spillway for the dam that held back a rush of water during a spring thaw or heavy rain. In the distance, ragged mountains leaped into the sky, still frosted with the remnants of winter snow at the highest elevations.
Normally she would have savored painting such a lovely sight, but not today, when it might be her sister’s watery tomb.
Rhea hugged her arms tight around herself, closed her eyes and listened to the soft lap of the water against the rocky shores of the lake. Imagined Selene standing there that fateful night, tapping out the message she’d sent to Rhea.
I can’t take it anymore. I can’t. I’m finally going to do something about it.
The police had taken that text to mean that Selene had decided to end her life that night, right there on the shores of those stunningly beautiful mountain waters. But Rhea wasn’t convinced.
