He was an outsider

And the only man she could trust.

 Attorney Marlee Masters’s brother was murdered. Proving it means working with Sheriff Ben Kinsella and facing down the nasty whispers in their rural Georgia town. Although the gossips accuse Marlee of being therealthreat,there's astalker vowing retribution if the two don’t end the investigation. Ben won’t abandon Marlee in her hour of need, butwill she have toplace herself in even more peril to catchthe killer?

 From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

 Discover more action-packed stories inthe Raising the Bar Brief series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:

 Book 1: An Absence of Motive

Book 2: For the Defense

Book 3: Trial in the Backwoods