Two sisters who have never met are bound together by secrets, lies, and murder in this page-turning novel of love and suspense Frantic to escape her paranoid, violent husband--a powerful New Orleans senator--Holly Ames takes her young son and flees into the dead of night. Four weeks later, prosecutor-turned-defense-attorney Meredith Rawson's dying mother makes a shocking confession. Now Meredith is on a journey to fulfill her mother's last wish: That she find the half sister she never knew. Before she can begin her search, her home is ransacked and her life threatened . . . but help arrives from an unexpected source. Haunted by his dark past, all New Orleans PD homicide detective Gage Gaynor wants is to put predators away and clean up a city riddled with crime. The hunt for a killer will bring him to Meredith's door. Told from the points of view of Meredith, Gage, and Holly, Cold Target takes readers into a world of power, privilege, and passion . . . where the ties that bind can be the most lethal of all.