The Reluctant Witness. Kathleen Tailer

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      LEFT FOR DEAD

      When his partner turns on him and tries to kill him, FBI agent Jack Mitchell is framed for murder and abandoned…until a blue-eyed beauty saves his life. Even in his wounded haze Jack sees Casey Johnson is hiding a secret. As the only witness to his innocence, Jack needs her. But Casey doesn’t know who’s more dangerous—the man who wants Jack dead or the handsome agent himself. For if Jack knew the reason she escaped to the wilderness with her niece, he’d have to arrest her. But on the run with Jack, Casey realizes that more than her secret is at stake now. So is her heart.…

      “We should call the police.

      “We can tell them what happened at your cabin yesterday, and you can tell them about when I got shot. This whole thing can be over right now.”

      Casey took a step back, her eyes wide and fearful. “I can’t do that, Jack.” What was it that had her so scared?

      A flash of frustration filled him. “Can’t, or won’t?”

      “Both. It’s the same thing.”

      Jack noticed that she didn’t deny she’d seen the shooting. She was just refusing to testify, and without her testimony, Jack still had nothing concrete to prove his innocence or Stevens’s guilt.

      He glanced back up at Casey, who had taken another step backward. She looked incredibly vulnerable and her expression squeezed his heart. He still didn’t know her story, but she had just saved his life. Again. Jack made a decision. He would figure out her history and the cause of her reticence at some point, but for now he’d have to think of something else.

      KATHLEEN TAILER

      is an attorney who works for the Supreme Court of Florida in the Office of the State Courts Administrator, where she works on programs that are designed to enhance and improve dependency courts throughout the state. She previously worked for the Florida Department of Children and Families, handling child-abuse cases both as a line attorney and in the DCF General Counsel’s Office. She enjoys teaching business law online classes at Liberty University and working on finding homes for orphans with the Open Door Adoption Agency. She and her husband have eight children, five of whom they adopted. When not in the office, Kathleen spends most of her time cheering for her kids at different events or spending quiet time (hah!) at home. Kathleen has previously published two articles for Fostering Families Today, a magazine for foster families, and two novels, entitled Children in the Wind and Under the Marshal’s Protection. She also plays drums on the worship team at Calvary Chapel Thomasville.

      The Reluctant Witness

      Kathleen Taile