The Moonshine Blade — Amanda Cockrell

WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE IT'S DANGEROUS TO FALL IN LOVE...

He's her husband's best friend and partner. Phil hull, undercover narc for the L.A.ED., a man with a passion for antique samurai swords, and a knack for rushing into danger...

She's his buddy's widow. Mary Rose Cullen, professor at a small college deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She's got a lab full of white mice and a pile of unanswered questions about the mysterious death of the husband she'd known only weeks...

Someone orchestrated Steven Cullen's death. Now his killers want the real prize--the centuries-old Moonshine Blade...and they are prepared to kill again. But they're not the only ones who'll bribe and steal and murder to possess its shimmering power...

Finding the missing Blade is tough enough, and staying alive long enough to sell it demands desperate measures. But in the explosive heat of the night, lit by flares and hunted by shadows, Phil and Mary Rose face real jeopardy, as they race headlong into a wild and reckless love....