tina hardt

Redaction doesn't always conceal the truth...sometimes, it unleashes a killer.

Ex Black Ops Jake Forster paid the ultimate price for deceiving his wife: she divorced him. But when pilot Nikki Porter’s lone passenger mysteriously dies mid-flight, and Nikki becomes the target of a madman, she must rely on all her ex-husband’s skills to survive—the very skills she once claimed to despise. 

Fleeing to a houseboat in the Florida Panhandle, they struggle to unravel the mystery behind her dead passenger’s identity. As they navigate the twisting, treacherous path of pretense, greed and murder, they discover something they never expected to find...something capable of surviving the mistakes of the past: love.

65,000 words