Mackenzie Lyons

Mackenzie Lyons is familiar with terror. She's experienced the heart-wrenching pain of loss, and she knows the face of death.

From the moment her mother is found raped and murdered in a violent home burglary that goes unsolved, she's worked toward one goal...becoming a Chicago homicide detective. Her life's ambition is to put killers behind bars and, one day, find her mother's murderer.

With a new Detective's badge in hand, and a harmless skirt-chasing playboy for a partner, she's on the trail of a killer with a unique modus operandi. He discards his victims in public places, their bodies left nude and mauled. Their wounds resurrect traumatic childhood fears in Mackenzie. Witnessing the tragic death of her father in a mountain lion attack while camping in the Sierra Nevadas left her with scars, both physical and emotional. Years later, she still suffers from guilt and ailurophobia... a fear of cats... a fact she keeps secret.

Having lost the two people she loved most in life to violent ends, Mackenzie avoids letting people into her closest circle. Especially after her one attempt at a romance failed miserably. She broke up with her college boyfriend, Kenneth Hahn—now an Asst. State's Attorney—when he opposed her decision to join the police force. Their relationship had always been a rocky one and left her with a bad impression of men with money and power.

At a slender, athletic five-foot-five, Mackenzie has long tawny hair that's usually found in a ponytail, prefers jeans to dresses and sneakers to heels. A sucker for chocolate, she offsets her bad habits by regularly working out on a punching bag.

Her job is her life.

She's worked hard to build a reputation as an untarnished badge and tenacious cop. But when she lands the year's most high-profile murder case, her devotion to duty is tested along with her impressions of a certain wealthy entrepreneur...who's hiding secrets of his own.

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