Mm Desch

Lethal Loyalty: Obsession Knows No Bounds... (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this gripping psychological novella, betrayal runs deep in a small Colorado town where drought, wildfire, and municipal corruption create the perfect storm for murder.

When Olivia Hahn discovers her lifelong love James wants access to confidential city banking information, she faces an impossible choice. Give in to his demands and risk prison, or lose the man she's dreamed of having a family with since childhood. But James isn't working alonehis new partner Kate has her own dangerous agenda for Durango's multimillion-dollar water pipeline project.

After Olivia's former friend Valerie uncovers evidence of wrongdoing, Kate presents another devastating ultimatum: neutralize Valerie's threat, or forfeit any chance of a future with James. Desperate to protect her dreams, Olivia makes a fatal choice that sets off a chain reaction of betrayal, deception, and death.

As a determined city attorney closes in and relationships crumble, Olivia must decide how far she'll go to secure her own survival. But in a town where loyalty can be lethal, no one's motives are what they seem.

"Lethal Loyalty" is a taut, character-driven novella that serves as the perfect introduction to M.M. Desch's forthcoming Portland Murders series. With spare, elegant prose and psychological complexity that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, this prequel novella explores the dangerous territory between love and obsession, and asks how well we truly know those closest to us.

This standalone novella sets up book two in The Portland Murders Series while delivering its own complete and satisfying narrative of manipulation, murder, and the price of misplaced loyalty in a drought-stricken town where water means power. Readers can dive into M.M. Desch's world of psychological suspense with "Tangled Darkness" (book one, available for pre-order, releasing July 2025) before continuing with "Play Me Once" (book two), where the dark threads first woven in "Lethal Loyalty" will fully unravel in a twisted tale of municipal corruption, missing persons, and murder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Otherwise Occupied
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798991013604
• Artikelnr.: 72262559

Autorenporträt

Mary Desch is a former psychiatrist who lives in Portland, Oregon, USA and writes psychological thriller stories. She's a member of several groups and subgroups within Sisters in Crime and the Willamette Writer's community. Her childhood attraction to the Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine grew into a college love for detective fiction. Not surprisingly, she leaned toward the psychological. Before age thirty, she'd entered private psychiatric practice which allowed an intimate view of the human experience through an abundance of stories.

Mary's medical work primed her to create relatable fictional characters and situations of psychological and physical danger. These experiences have informed her writing; crafting psychological thrillers was a natural fit. Mary's debut novel, TANGLED DARKNESS, was added to the 2023 Chanticleer Clue Awards short list and will be published in July 2025 by Rowan Prose Publishing.

When not writing, Mary's interests include hiking, long dog walks with her wife and their rascal mini schnauzer, golf, Portland food carts, and the WNBA.

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