Her whole life flashed before her, the triumphs, the tragedy. Her wedding to Randy. Jake's birth. The funeral. She'd loved them with all her heart but hadn't been able to keep them safe. They'd paid for her sins, her decision, her loyalty to the badge.She'd paid, too, the most devastating price imaginable.Now someone else's life rested in her hands.She'd heard salvation took on the most unexpected, unrecognizable of faces, but she'd never imagined this.Mansfield stood before her, the beautiful day dancing behind him, an azure sky and glistening lake, sailboats. His fathomless eyes were concentrated solely on her. She'd thought them go-to-hell, but she'd never expected them to send her there as well.And she'd never expected hell to be rooted in heaven. Impossible not to look at him and feel the promise of life flood her. He had that way about him, of making her feel she was the only woman in the world. Yet when she moved beyond the hard eyes and grim mouth, beyond the long hair and flamboyant earring, when she moved beyond all that, she found more.
