Sacrifice : Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc : 9781989706190 : 1989706193 : 04 Mar 2020 : "An intense, thrilling page-turner sure to satisfy any fan of the [crime] genre." -Goodreads Review ????? She read him stories and tucked him at night. She'd kiss his forehead and wish him "pleasant dreams." But all this is in the past and nothing more than a haunting memory as she looks into his unseeing eyes... Her baby is dead. Martha Cooper has been living with a horrible secret for years, but it all came crashing down when the son she was forced to walk away from turns up dead. Now a grown man of twenty-two, Chris was found washed up on a riverbank during a winter thaw, and it's Detective Madison Knight who rushes to the crime scene. Martha is quick to point Madison to her ex-husband and the boy's father, Marcus Randall, for his murder. But Marcus isn't about to go down without a fight. As a wealthy and corrupt business tycoon, Marcus pulls on his friendship with the police chief,