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NightShade Forensic FBI Files - Vol 3
Copyright © 2021 by AJ Scudiere
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FIRST EDITION
Contents
Books by A.J.
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Foreword
I. Dead Tide
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
II. Sabotage
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
III. Vanishing Point
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
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The NightShade Forensic Files
Book 1 - Under Dark Skies
Book 2 - Fracture Five
Book 3 - The Atlas Defect
Book 4 - Echo and Ember
Book 5 - Salvage (A Shadow Files Novel)
Book 6 - Garden of Bone
Book 7 - The Camelot Gambit
Book 8 - Dead Tide
Book 9 - Sabotage
Book 10 - Vanishing Point
Book 11 - Beneath Memory
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Black Carbon
Book 1 - The Hunted
Book 2 - The Surface
Book 3 - The Tempest
Book 4 - The Swarm
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Legends
The Landa Landa & The Aellai
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FORTUNE (red)
FORTUNE (gray)
FORTUNE (Red & Gray)
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The Vendetta Trifecta
Vengeance
Retribution
Justice
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Resonance
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Dissonance - a companion novella to Resonance
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God's Eye
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Phoenix
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The Shadow Constant
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Stand Alone Novels by A.J. Scudiere: Resonance, God’s Eye, Phoenix, The Shadow Constant
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Part I
Dead Tide
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Donovan stood with his feet in the sand, looking out over the vast, open ocean. With each wave that licked at his feet and ankles, his anxiety ratcheted up a notch.
They shouldn’t be on this case.
Beside him, Eleri stood whispering a prayer. It was one he’d heard from her before. Something old from her grandmother, or maybe a wish to one of the Voodoo gods a branch of her complicated family worshiped.
The words were foreign to him and, right now, he couldn’t hear the sound of her voice. The rush of his own blood in his veins was louder than whatever his partner whispered. The roaring in his head was louder than the gentle, relentless waves.
“Eleri?” he asked, but the wind snatched his voice away and she didn’t answer.
There were so many things wrong with this case, the first of which was the ocean lapping at his feet. He hated the water.
Eleri, on the other hand, often joked about being a mermaid. Even now, she looked as though she might run three steps forward and gracefully disappear under the waves, heading toward the home of her heart. The thought petrified Donovan.
He’d seen her do it before and was confident he couldn’t stop her. He prayed she didn't try.
They should never have been put on this case. The death of a marine biologist—a strange death, at that—should not have been assigned to an FBI agent who could not handle the sea. A case that involved a friend should not have been assigned to Eleri Eames. And Donovan should not have been pulled away from finding the man he believed was his brother, even though he believed that having a brother was impossible.
Yet, here he was, fighting the overwhelming urge to run away and leave Allison Caldeira’s death in the hands of some other agent. The waves reaching for him and the sand pulling him under gave him a distinct, sinking sensation, surely a harbinger of how this case would go.
Donovan had to keep telling himself the riptide couldn’t grab him and pull him under, not when only the biggest waves even managed to touch his ankles. But he was unable to step away from Eleri, unable to step away from the one person who had ever loved him unconditionally.
“Eleri?” he asked again, and this time she looked up at him. “Do we have to do this?”
