Straight for the Kill

Winter Austin perpetually answers the question: "were you born in the winter?" with a flat "nope," but believe her, there is a story behind her name.A lifelong Mid-West gal with strong ties to the agriculture world, Winter grew up listening to the captivating stories told by relatives around a table or a campfire. As a published author, she learned her glass half-empty personality makes for a perfect suspense/thriller writer. Taking her ability to verbally spin a vivid and detailed story, Winter translated that into writing deadly romantic suspense, mysteries, and thrillers.When she's not slaving away at the computer, you can find Winter supporting her daughter in cattle shows, seeing her three sons off into the wide-wide world, loving on her fur babies, prodding her teacher husband, and nagging at her flock of hens to stay in the coop or the dogs will get them.She is the author of multiple novels.

Déjà vu brings a chill in the case that will make or break more than just her career.Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit's worst nightmare returns when her deputies discover a young woman killed in the same circumstances as a death from 25 years earlier. That previous victim was Elizabeth's best friend and Deputy Kyle Lundquist's older sister. Elizabeth has spent a quarter of a century trying to nail the crooked ex-sheriff she knows is involved up to his elbows in this unresolved crime. She has a thick file of clues, but it's going to take irrefutable proof to put both cases to bed.Deputy Detective Lila Dayne draws on all her investigative skills, but still she can't pin down their main suspect. Then prominent members of the community begin to disappear-clearly, there's a bigger vendetta at play. Despite the legal consequences of being too close to the case, Elizabeth can't keep away now.When Elizabeth's sister goes missing, it's a no-holds-barred race against time in the showdown that's been brewing in Eckardt County for decades.