The Alibi She Built

She married a homicide detective for one reason: no one would ever suspect his wife.

Lauren Pritchard built her life carefully.

A respected husband. Three children. A quiet home in Blackwater, Virginia. Church on Sundays. Family dinners. Neighbors who wave from the driveway.

And Wesley Pritchard, the homicide detective who was never supposed to become more than the perfect alibi.

But somewhere along the way, Lauren fell in love with the life she had created.

Then Richard Kells is found dead inside an abandoned chapel.

Wes takes the case.

Lauren knows he is good at his job. She knows how he notices the detail everyone else misses, how he keeps pulling at a loose thread long after other detectives would let it go.

She knows because she married him for exactly that reason.

Now the investigation is moving closer to home.

A death that should have stood alone begins connecting to others. Questions Lauren thought she buried years ago are surfacing again. And the man who knows her habits, her expressions, and the sound of her voice when she lies is starting to see pieces that do not fit.

Wes has spent his career hunting killers.

He has no idea he may be sleeping beside one.

Lauren has spent years preparing for the day someone came looking for the truth.

She never prepared for that someone to be her husband.

The Alibi She Built is a tense psychological thriller about a detective, the wife he trusts more than anyone, and the secret that could destroy everything they built together.

Book One of The Blackwater Alibi Trilogy.