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Ruthless Integrity
 
Marie E. Reid

 

In an isolated location outside a small desert town, the government is conducting classified, scientific experiments using the combined DNA of notorious serial killers and an unidentified predator DNA.

Code name…Ruthless.

After years of botched, disastrous attempts to develop an ideal specimen, their dedicated endeavors finally pay off.  From among the surviving infants, one baby is a beautiful, perfectly formed replica of what they need to develop their scheme.  So what happens when this project goes awry and their prized experiment, a genetically altered 10-year-old escapes before they have the ability to control it?  The government tries to correct their error by creating another child capable of tracking and destroying the first.

Code name…Redemption.

Over the years, without the necessary control substances needed at each stage of development, Ruthless utilizes the characteristics of both DNA donors to survive.  Stalking and brutalizing with the cunning of a proficient serial criminal, it kills with the vicious, hungry instincts of a predator in the wild.  A rash of brutal murders and disappearances terrorize the people in the communities surrounding the outpost, then stop.  The crimes go unsolved. 

Twenty years later, in one of the communities not far from the government lab, serial killers, rapists, and pedophiles tried for their crimes and escape justice on technicalities begin to disappear.  When their dead bodies resurface, hideously mutilated, suspicion falls on a few gung ho law enforcement officers from the community’s Violent Crimes Unit. 

Meanwhile, the commanding officer of the outpost, recognizes the ramifications of the mutilated bodies.  He assigns his own federal investigator to look into the matter, and neutralize the problem.  However, this particular agent, Jordan Perry, has a private agenda, and his current assignment fits right in with his personal campaign, leaving him in a quandary.  Knowing the capabilities of both specimens… Who is the real perpetrator of these crimes, and which one will he have to destroy?  Ruthless, Redemption...  Or...maybe both.


© Marie E. Reid

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  Memories Erased:  Deception
 M. E. Reid

On the threshold of fifty, AIANNA SINCLAIR thinks she has it all -- love, happiness, and success -- until her husband becomes ill, diagnosed with incurable cancer, and her secure world begins to crumble.  She changes jobs to be closer to home and she’s swept into an environment of subterfuge, but her concentrated efforts to keep her husband alive blind her to the implications.  Then her husband loses his battle.  At the funeral, she meets her mysterious new neighbor Gregorio Galliano, whose surface affability is believable, yet she senses it masks an undercurrent of menace.  Intrigued, she accepts his friendly overtures, unaware she is meeting a notorious mafia figure.

Aianna returns to work and discovers the company is in financial trouble, her supervisors are not what they should be, and the business is closing.  The Chairman of the Board offers Aianna a position with one of his other companies and she accepts.  From day one, she faces hostility from other employees, the Chairman’s behavior toward her takes on a bizarre twist, and her supervisor turns up dead.  Aianna becomes the prime suspect, and realizes she is the target of something more sinister than hostility, but she refuses to stand idly by and become a victim.

Life spiraling out of control, Aianna is grateful for Gregorio’s friendship.  However, when he insists he can help, fearing for his safety, she begs him not to get involved.  After all, what can one man do to resolve her predicament?  Then there is the attempt on Aianna’s life.  Gregorio sheds his pretense of anonymity to protect the woman he has come to love, and Aianna Sinclair meets the real Gregorio Galliano, nee Calderone.

© M. E. Reid

fiction -- m/f - romantic suspense - Interracial

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