The grave held answers to questions that had long haunted her, and nothing would stop her from getting them...not even the return of Luke Crawford. Luke wasn't about to be pushed out of McCall's life again. Not when she needed him the most. The blue-eyed boy was now a devastating cowboy who knew what he wanted--and that was to keep McCall safe. Not an easy thing to do when her investigation stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble. But nothing would stop him from taking this Winchester as his bride!

    She drinks too much and hasn't had a good night's sleep in months. On a hung-over morning, in June, Rainey finds herself thrust back into the world of stalkers, rapist and serial killers by a request for help, from an old friend. The next thirteen days will change Rainey's life forever, if she survives. On top of all that, Katie, her friend's wife, the one she is supposed to protect, brings out feelings Rainey didn't know she had. Though Katie is married and neither she nor Rainey has ever been in a lesbian relationship, the two women are thrown together by a bizarre series of events, learning to depend on each other for survival.

    Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Chapters: The Big Bad Wolf, Four Blind Mice, Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Jack & Jill, the Dangerous Days of Daniel X, Pop Goes the Weasel, the Lake House, Cat and Mouse, Witch and Wizard, Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment, When the Wind Blows, Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, 4th of July, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever, Cross, Sail, the Jester, the Postcard Killers, the 5th Horseman, 3rd Degree, Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Cross Country, the 6th Target, Fang: a Maximum Ride Novel, 2nd Chance, Double Cross, Max: a Maximum Ride Novel, Alex Cross's Trial, Sam's Letters to Jennifer, Sundays at Tiffany's, Judge and Jury, London Bridges, Step on a Crack, the Quickie, 7th Heaven, 8th Confession, Run for Your Life, Mary, Mary. Excerpt: The Big Bad Wolf is the ninth book by James Patterson featuring the former Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychiatrist and current FBI agent Alex Cross. It was the 57th best selling book of 2004 in the United States. The book begins with a Russian mobster known as The Wolf buying his way into ADX Florence. He is there to see Italian mobster, 66 year old Augustino Palumbo. Once inside The Wolf is courteous and friendly. The meeting is to unite the 2 families, thus becoming one of the biggest crime syndicates in the world. He leans toward the old man and whispers something in his ear, which terrifies Palumbo. He then grabs the old man by the neck and breaks it. A beautiful woman, Elizabeth Connolly, mother of 3, is leaving the upscale Phipps Plaza mall in Atlanta, Georgia. The Wolf has paid 2 persons $150,000 to abduct her. They approach her and grab her, carrying her to her SUV and putting her in the trunk. They put her to sleep using chloroform. They drive to an...