Shooting Starr

Overview: Kathleen Creighton believes the gift—or curse—of writing comes in the genes. While growing up in the vast farming and ranching country of Central California she spent many hours with her elbows propped on the old kitchen table in her grandparents' house, listening to the tales her grandfather told. "He spoke with an eloquence that made your eyes shine and your pulse quicken," Kathleen recalls. "Papa could make you feel as though you'd been there." The gun trained on his chest left him with no choice.... Turning Caitlyn in to the police was the right thing to do, the law-abiding thing. So why did it have to hurt so bad...and cost her so much? Caitlyn Brown had never expected C. J. Starr to walk back into her life after all they'd endured. Never imagined she'd draw strength from his voice, the memory of his smile, the gentle touch of his hand. She could allow him to protect her from a danger she could no longer see, but she could never forget that he'd sworn to uphold the law, and—as long as there were innocent victims in need of her help—that she had vowed to break it. Turning Caitlyn Brown in to the police was the right thing for law-abiding C.J. Starr to do. So why did it have to hurt so bad and cost her so much?