What Mercy Costs

Lauren Pritchard was finally ready to pay for what she had done.She surrendered. She confessed. And for the first time in years, she stopped deciding who deserved justice.Then everything goes wrong.Now Lauren is outside police custody, her family is being threatened, and a man connected to the darkest years of her childhood has resurfaced with secrets of his own.Detective Wes Pritchard should know exactly what to do.Find his wife. Bring her in. Let the law handle the rest.But nothing about Lauren has ever been that simple.The woman he loves is a murderer. She is also the mother of his children, the person who knows him better than anyone, and a woman desperately trying to become something other than the worst thing she has ever done.As the search closes in and old truths begin to surface, Lauren faces the temptation she knows better than anyone: the belief that some people are too dangerous to leave alive.And Wes is forced toward a choice no badge, oath, or rulebook prepared him to make.Because catching Lauren may destroy what remains of his family.Letting her go may destroy something inside him instead.How much can love forgive before forgiveness becomes something else?What Mercy Costs is the powerful final installment of The Blackwater Alibi Trilogy, a psychological domestic thriller about marriage, murder, guilt, justice, and the terrifying difference between loving someone and believing they deserve to be saved.Start the trilogy with The Alibi She Built, followed by The Things We Bury.