Love Hurts: The True Story of a Teen Romance, a Vicious Plot, and a Family Murdered

Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried-but failed-to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terry’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing...

Once Erin was found by local authorities, she claimed she had been kidnapped-but could not remember the details. It wasn’t until Terry was fully conscious that he could explain what had really happened: He’d been shot, point-blank, by two young men. One of them he did not know; the other was Charlie James Wilkinson. Charlie was Erin’s nineteen-year-old boyfriend, forbidden from entering the Caffey home. Until Erin helped Charlie come up with a plan to do away with her disapproving parents once and for all...

Keith Elliot Greenberg is a producer for America’s Most Wanted, and coauthor of wrestler Ric Flair’s New York Times bestselling autobiography, To Be the Man. He’s written for Maxim, the New York Observer, Village Voiceand USA Today, among others, and authored more than 30 non-fiction childrens’ books. He and his family live in Brooklyn, New York.