The Aroostine Higgins Series: Box Set 2 (Books 3 and 4)

Book excerpt: Buckle up for another double dose of suspense and action in the second two-book thriller set from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller! CALCULATED RISK (Book 3): A priceless antique that may be a counterfeit. A missing socialite. A desecrated corpse. For a sleepy Southern Louisiana town, Belle Rue is home to an awful lot of secrets ... and desperate people who will do anything to keep those secrets. Aroostine comes to Belle Rue with a simple mission: track down the weaver of a one-of-a-kind example of Native American basketry. When her trail collides with a local homicide investigation, she and her husband, Joe, find themselves smack in the middle of two scandals: one that spans generations; one that dominates the headlines. As Aroostine teases out the connections that weave the two tragedies together, her actions put her in a killer's sights. CALLED HOME (Book 4): With nothing left to lose, Aroostine becomes a relentless tracker who won't stop until she finds a missing girl. After her husband dies in a car accident, Aroostine wants to be left alone to mourn. But when a teenager goes missing and the authorities write her off as a rebellious runaway, an old friend calls in a favor for the girl's desperate mother. Still reeling from Joe's death, Aroostine sets off on a cross-country hunt that puts her in the cross-hairs of a shadowy organization with violent ties as she searches for a girl who has very good reasons to want to stay lost.