A RAGING FIRE (Shepherd & Associates)

IT WAS A SIMPLE CASE . . . until it wasn't. Anna-Claire Carden, M.D. wants to know who she is. Jake isn't interested in a birth parent search. Scarlett takes the case. As the search ensues, puzzling facts and multiple mysteries emerge, attracting Jake. When the investigators travel to South Carolina for witness interviews, life-threatening situations arise causing Jake to send for backup. Fraud and deception blend as truth is uncovered, a manifest injustice is discovered, and a murder solved. What began as a simple trace ancestral roots turns into a traffic stop gone wrong as Scarlett, Jake, Kai, and Pete Cooper, FBI Ret. (Jake's partner in the security company) team up with South Carolina law enforcement to unravel complicated issues created over thirty years before.

Judith Erwin's books have won a Gold Medal in the Florida Authors and Publishers Association Annual Competition and been finalists in the Readers Favorite Competition, and the Royal Palm Literary Awards. Erwin is retired attorney, contributing writer to numerous publications including Mystery & Suspense Magazine and Crimespree Magazine. A RAGING FIRE is the fourth book in her Shepherd & Associates Series of crime fiction.