Southern Comfort

Atlanta homicide detective Patrick 'Tick' Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn't keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favour of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the centre of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger - except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race. Tick finds himself fas In her dazzling new novel , #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels masterfully blends adventure, redemption, and rich emotion, exploring all the ways that love can come to heal us—even when we least expect it. . . Atlanta homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn't keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favor of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed... Special agent Kate Rush resigns from the DEA and moves back to her native Miami where she is intrigued by a job offer to watch a property suspected of being a center for human trafficking, and teams up with former homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, who has been hiding and writing novels since his family was murdered, but through their work together, Kate and Tick find an opportunity for a second chance at happiness Now Sober, Atlanta Homicide Detective Patrick Tick Kelly, Still Haunted By The Murder Of His Wife And Children, Gets An Unexpected Second Chance At Happiness When He Works With Former Dea Agent Kate Rush To Expose A Local Human Trafficking Ring. Fern Michaels.