title: On the Line: an Out of Line novel (Volume 7)
author:  Jen McLaughlin 
description: Jen McLaughlin is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of sexy books with Penguin Random House. Under her pen name, Diane Alberts, she is also a USA TODAY bestselling author of Contemporary Romance with Entangled Publishing. Her first release as Jen McLaughlin, Out of Line, hit the New York Times, USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal lists. She was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency. Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal-clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, and four cats. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.
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  END OF THE LINE
  
  
  AMBER REED MYSTERY BOOK 8
  
  
  BY
  
  
  ZANNA MACKENZIE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  COPYRIGHT ZANNA MACKENZIE 2019
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual people, places or
  situations is purely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  “Are you sure you’re up to this? Going back to work?”
  
  
  It’s been three weeks since the incident that almost killed me (and Mel, our
  agency client) and made the Celebrity Crimes Investigation Agency put me on
  paid recovery leave for a little while.
  
  
  “Honestly. I feel absolutely fine now,” I insist.
  
  
  Mel is less than convinced though.
  
  
  “I’m positively raring to get back to work,” I try to placate him. “I promise
  you, like I said, I’m absolutely fine.”
  
  
  “I’ll miss having you around,” he says, leaning on the muddy spade he has been
  wielding all morning.
  
  
  We’re in the garden, in the rain, and I’ve been helping him out with his grand
  plans for the garden grounds revamp here at 