Hard To Love — Theresa Sederholt

If you purchased the Killing Me Softly Anthology you have an early version of Hard To Love. This is an updated version of the story. Antonia Phillips and Grace Fleming are not only cousins and best friends, they're the dynamic duo of Discreet Investigations. And they've caught their first case. The client is Mason Hartman, a victim of temporary amnesia due to an accident. The guy just needs help putting some pieces of his life together that he can't quite figure out. He's not the only one. It turns out that he is the son of Mark Chambers, one of New York's most notorious serial murderers. There's only one man who's been able to climb into that madman's head, and that's NYPDs retired detective Fitzgerald Rodriguez. Every great detective has that one case that never leaves them, haunting them in their dreams. What will it take to get Fitz onboard?What should have been an open and shut case has these two private eyes falling down a rabbit hole so deep and twisted, it stirs up questions about their own family—especially for Antonia. Why are her parents so overprotective to the point of her growing up with bodyguards around her at all times? What are they afraid of and why are they terrified of hers and Grace's decision to open their business in New York City?Most importantly—why did she walk away from the only man she ever loved only to have him pop back into her life to stir up the same old feelings and question: why is she so hard to love?They say you never know what you have until you lose it.What will be the cost to Antonia . . . to the whole Phillips/Fleming family?