Her Last Goodbye

Chelsea Clark, a young wife and mother, vanishes on a night out in Scarlet Falls. Her husband becomes the obvious suspect, and defense attorney Morgan Dane takes his case, convinced the police have settled on him too quickly.

Working alongside private investigator Lance Kruger, Morgan digs into a disappearance that fits a pattern nobody wanted to see, while raising three daughters and carrying her own losses. The deeper the two go, the clearer it becomes that Chelsea may not be the first woman taken.

Melinda Leigh's second Morgan Dane novel is romantic suspense in a procedural register: alternating investigation and legal manoeuvring, with the slow-burn relationship between Morgan and Lance running underneath.