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Contents
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Prologue: The Kiss
Part I: Too Good to be True
Chapter One
Most of the best things in life came to Alice…
Chapter Two
Becca Stevenson had a secret.
Chapter Three
Four days after Alice first met Drew Campbell at the…
Chapter Four
Hank Beckman watched the digital numbers change on the pump,…
Chapter Five
There was a time when the name of Manhattan’s Meatpacking…
Chapter Six
Drew accelerated through the loop into the Holland Tunnel. She…
Chapter Seven
Joann Stevenson felt a tongue between her toes and jerked…
Chapter Eight
“Please tell me this is one of your practical jokes.”
Chapter Nine
Thanks to the radio station’s Two-for-Tuesday playlist, Hank lost track…
Chapter Ten
Alice remembered a time when the sultry baritone of her…
Chapter Eleven
Joann could not help but feel she was somehow being…
Chapter Twelve
Alice blew hot breaths into her cupped fists, trying to…
Chapter Thirteen
Alice had been hunched over her laptop so long that…
Chapter Fourteen
Hank Beckman made it to Jersey before the crack of…
Chapter Fifteen
Her apartment had to be cold—it always was in the…
Chapter Sixteen
“God damn it.”
Chapter Seventeen
How did this happen?
Chapter Eighteen
Hank threw an offhand wave toward Charlie Dixon as he…
Chapter Nineteen
Even with his eyes closed, Morhart would have known his…
Chapter Twenty
Alice was bundled in Jeff’s white terry bathrobe, her hair…
Chapter Twenty-One
Morhart was at Linwood High School for the second day…
Chapter Twenty-Two
Alice was in her bed, thinking about friendship.
Part II: Nothing to Hide
Chapter Twenty-Three
You’ve heard what they say about pictures and a thousand…
Chapter Twenty-Four
“Lady, first you want me to go to Jersey. Now…
Chapter Twenty-Five
“What do you mean, she had a cell phone?”
Chapter Twenty-Six
Hank Beckman was only forty-eight years old, but there were…
Chapter Twenty-Seven
The city of New York claims more than eight million…
Chapter Twenty-Eight
It had been four weeks since Alice’s last visit to…
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Only forty miles of road separated Dover, New Jersey, from…
Chapter Thirty
“Fuck, I feel guilty. I sat here and bitched for…
Chapter Thirty-One
Hank Beckman felt like a dying man who had planned…
Chapter Thirty-Two
There was a time when the Upper East Side was…
Chapter Thirty-Three
It had been five days since Becca Stevenson had disappeared,…
Chapter Thirty-Four
“Now we’re at the height of our practice. Trikonasana, triangle…
Chapter Thirty-Five
Alice tried to make herself small inside the tiny alcove…
Chapter Thirty-Six
Hank Beckman popped his third Advil in as many hours.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
It was Alice’s second trip to the Upper East Side,…
Chapter Thirty-Eight
“This might have been a bad idea.”
Chapter Thirty-Nine
“Good to see you again, Morhart.”
Chapter Forty
Even in better days, Alice felt an intense irritation navigating…
Chapter Forty-One
“Holy shit, you actually picked up your phone.”
Chapter Forty-Two
Alice rose from damp moss beneath a towering mulberry tree,…
Chapter Forty-Three
The next time she opened her eyes, she felt groggy.
Part III: Memories
Chapter Forty-Four
Joann Stevenson hit the play button once again on her…
Chapter Forty-Five
Alice maintained a brisk but unexceptional pace down Second Avenue…
Chapter Forty-Six
As Alice watched clumps of hair fall from the scissor…
Chapter Forty-Seven
Alice caught a glimpse of her own reflection in the…
Chapter Forty-Eight
Just as Beckman had predicted, they pulled off 684 at…
Chapter Forty-Nine
“Don’t you need a search warrant or something?”
Chapter Fifty
Joann Stevenson felt like the wind had been knocked out…
Chapter Fifty-One
The home in which Christie Kinley had supposedly passed away…
Chapter Fifty-Two
They were back at their motel outside White Plains, strategizing…
Chapter Fifty-Three
It was nearly four o’clock, and Jason was still pissed…
Part IV: Mia
Chapter Fifty-Four
Alice’s disposable phone rang at 5:58 p.m. She recognized her…
Chapter Fifty-Five
Alice tapped her nails against Hank Beckman’s steering wheel, trying…
Chapter Fifty-Six
For two hours, she and Arthur had waited in Arthur’s…
Chapter Fifty-Seven
“I’d have to say this has been a much more…
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Jason Morhart managed to cram his truck into the hybrid-sized…
Chapter Fifty-Nine
“This is certainly a lovely treat.” Arthur Cronin was inspecting…
Epilogue
Alice was panting by the time she reached her turnoff…
Acknowledgments
A Special Note of Thanks
Winning: Alafair Burke
About the Author
Other Books by Alafair Burke
