After living several years in Chicago, Kyle Shannon decides to find a new job and a new life in Lake County. While on a temp assignment at Choice Manufacturing, she learns that some people will do anything to get what they want. And sometimes what they want already belongs to someone else. After a county politician is found dead in a forest preserve and a tragic fire clears the way for a large construction project, Kyle examines what she thinks she knows about the people she now considers friends. One of them is a killer.

Kyle Shannon earns a living as a temporary. Her assignments take her into many different situations but they all have one thing in common - murder.

As a client, a temporary worker and a recruiter, Linda Mickey saw all sides of the staffing business. In addition to writing novels, Linda does consulting and training in IT, education, retail, banking and manufacturing. She also entertains audiences with a variety of topics at public speaking engagements.