Dark Horse

Dark Horse by Tami Hoag In her latest thriller New York
Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a
suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an
explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop a missing
girl and a killer locked in a race where there can be only
one winner—and the losers die trying. In a trailer in a
Florida swamp time is running out for eighteen year-old
Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnappers terrifying game for
a ransom no one can pay her last hope is a washed-up
ex-cop who has already lost it all-not once but twice. The
wealthy world of the Palm Beach horse set seems a long way
from a cops world in the narcotics division. A lifetime
ago undercover sheriffs detective Elena Estes worked the
mean streets and BackTop alleys living by her wits and
playing the long odds until she took one risk too many.
Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and
self-hatred hiding from the past and believing she doesnt
deserve to have a future. But the past is about to come
back with a vengeance and the future is about to become a
race between life and death. A young woman is missing and
her twelve year-old stepsister comes to Estes for help. No
one but serious studious Molly Seabright seems concerned
about whats happened to her troubled older sister. But
Molly is convinced Erin is in danger. Estes has no P.I.
license no interest in a new career and no desire to break
her self-imposed exile. But the more she learns about the
people Erin Seabright was involved with the more her
long-dormant cop instincts come back to life. One trip to
the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom and Estes is
quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamorous sport.
Behind the glittering ultra-rich facade is an
ultra-ruthless world of drugs payoffs and dirty deals. A
world of dissolute playboys and crooked horse-dealers of
royalty and rabble of rivals and enemies. An obscenely
wealthy world where anything can be had for a
price—including a life. And in that world stalks a killer
who will lead Estes down a dark twisted trail of decadence
and deceit mayhem and murder—from the gilded life of Palm
Beach to the darkest corners of the Florida swamps to a
final show-down that could cost her everything. A race
against time and evil. A race in which Estes is the dark
horse—and no one is betting on her to win.