Genesis (Harry Starke Genesis Book 1) FREE

She climbed into my car out of the rain, soaking wet and scared to death, and told me her car had broken down. It was a lie. There wasn't another car for miles.

I'd quit the police force two days earlier. I was just an ex-cop driving to a poker game through the worst storm Chattanooga had seen all winter, when a shadow crossed my headlights and nearly went under my wheels. A girl. Twenty-one, maybe. Dark hair plastered to her face, makeup running down her cheeks, jumping at every flash of lightning.

She wouldn't tell me her name. She wouldn't tell me what she was running from. She just wanted to get to the Sorbonne, and she wanted it badly enough to throw herself in front of a stranger's car on an empty road at night.

I should have dropped her off and driven away. I didn't. And by the time I understood what she'd walked into—what she'd pulled me into—it was already too late… for both of us.

That was the night I became a private detective.

She was the one that got away.