title: The Con Man's Daughter
author:  Ed Dee 
description: Born in Yonkers, NY on Feb. 3, 1940, Ed Dee grew up in the city's west side projects. After graduating from Sacred Heart H. S. he spent two years in the U.S. Army. In 1962, after several Teamster Union trucking jobs, he joined the NYPD. He spent nine years in uniform walking the streets of the South Bronx, while earning a BA at Fordham University. During the last eleven years he supervised detectives in the Organized Crime Control Bureau. Ed retired from the NYPD as a lieutenant lugging a suitcase full of stories he had to write. He left Fordham Law School to obtain a MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. His master's thesis became his first novel. Although the horror and hilarity of his NYPD career are evident in his work, Ed focuses on the cops themselves; how the depressing grind of an impossible job infects and changes them, then spills over onto those they love. Ed has two daughters and four grandchildren. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Nancy who made the frying pan-to-fire leap of cop's wife to writer's wife.
zlib_text: A conman’s daughter takes refuge with the family she
  never knew she had in New York Times bestseller
  B.J. Daniels’s latest addition to the Cardwell family
  saga.
  Dee Anna Justice had thought that her convict father was her only living
  relative. Now Walter Justice, fearing for his daughter’s safety, urges her to
  seek out her cousins in Montana. Calling in a decades-old debt, he also enlists
  private investigator Beau Tanner to protect her.
  Despite their fiery attraction, she resents the bodyguard her dad foists on her.
  Trust doesn’t come easy to DJ. But the warm, embracing family she finds at
  Cardwell ranch just might begin to soften her suspicious nature, and learning
  to trust the sexy PI may be the key to saving her life.
  
  “What was that?”
  DJ began brushing the snow off her backside.
  “A kiss. Apparently it’s been a while for you, as well,” Beau said. He began
  helping her brush off the snow.
  “I can do it myself,” she snapped. She wanted to tell him that she’d only
  kissed him back because