Susan Arnout Smith - The Timer Game
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Used Very Good
Trade Paperback
Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 40mm
Publication Date: 2008
(Grace Descano Series Bk 1)
Grace Descanso is a young single mother juggling a demanding job with the Crime Scene Investigation Department of the San Diego PD and the demands of single motherhood. Her five-year-old daughter, Katie, is all she's got and Grace intends to spend every minute she can with her.
When a routine crime scene goes awry and Grace has to shoot to kill - she realizes that someone is after her...and her daughter. Katie is kidnapped right from her own home and Grace is forced to come face to face with her past demons and the trauma that she barely lived through in Guatemala...
Will Grace be able to follow the clues and find her daughter before time runs out...
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