title: Blood Ties: A Novel
author:  Nicholas Guild 
description: "Guilds drop-dead characterizations of police men and women, his perfect-pitch dialogue, and the serpentine coils of a plot thats absorbing and shocking support this unusually convincing combination of romance and homicide."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
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  Trivial Ties (The Family Novak Book Three) by Susi Hawke and Crista Crown
  
  
  © 2020 Susi Hawke and Crista Crown
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events,
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Edited by Jill Wexler, LesCourt Author Services
  
  
  Proofreading by Lori Parks, LesCourt Author Services
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Trivial Ties
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Family Novak Book Three
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Susi Hawke
  
  
  ## Crista Crown
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Cast of Characters](part0003.html#12394)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0004.html#16036)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Tanner](part0005.html#4OIQ0-d65ecfd76abe4342a9b6c9b3da6bb72f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [Ivan](part0006.html#5N3C0-d65ecfd76abe4342a9b6c9b3da6bb72f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3\. [Tanner](part0007.html#6LJU0-d65ecfd76abe4342a9b6c9b3d