The Locket

A simple trinket left in a confessional begins a path of destruction throughout the years. The golden locket, left behind by a woman who killed her boyfriend, is supposedly cursed; at least that's what she claimed before she raced out of the church. Anyone who dares fasten the pendant around her neck suffers severe and uncontrollable anger. Woe be it to anyone who gets in the path of the wearer. Is the piece cursed, or are the deaths totally unrelated? Detective Clarence O'Day is unwilling to make the connection—until forty years after the first case. When The Wagon Carrying Odessa Clay And Her Father Overturns, He Is Killed. She Is Left Alone In The Middle Of The Desert To Try To Find Her Way To Kin In Phoenix. Hot, Dry And Scared, Odessa Is Near Death When Zach Johnson Finds Her. Squinting Up Into His Tanned And Handsome Face, She Imagines She's Died And Gone To Heaven. Would-be-outlaw, Zach Comes Across An Unconscious Woman Alone In The Middle Of Nowhere. Where Did She Come From? She Appears Young, But The Curves Beneath The Dusty Gingham Say Otherwise. He Didn't Plan To Become Someone's Hero, But He Cannot Leave Her Helpless And Stranded. Will The Promise Of Odessa's Sweet Lips Lure Zach From The Secret Mission That Has His Gut Twisted Into A Knot? His Father's Ranch Isn't The Only Thing At Stake-now It's His Heart, Too. Murder, embezzlement, betrayal, and silence...Peyton Farley, a southwest Montana newspaper researcher, awakens to find a man bleeding to death on her kitchen floor. The stranger draws one last gurgling breath. As Peyton awaits the arrival of the first responders, the man's body disappears. Local authorities accuse Peyton of murder. No sooner is she released from custody on charges of murder and illegal disposal of a body, when she is abducted by a cab driver named Tater. If I Should Die is a nonstop page-turner involving murder, embezzlement, and the ultimate betrayal. Peyton Farley, a southwest Montana newspaper researcher, awakens to find a man bleeding to death on her kitchen floor. As Peyton awaits the arrival of the first responders, the man's body disappears, and local authorities accuse her of murder