Sandra Brown 
Tough Customer 
A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red ‘;charges her characters and their relationships with electricity’ (San Francisco Book Review) in this sizzling, sleep-with-the-lights-on novel of suspense.When a deranged stalker attempts to murder her daughter Berry, Caroline King has no doubts who to contact for help: Berrys father, the cagey private investigator Dodge Hanley. Its been thirty years since Dodge last saw Caroline, but the savvy real estate mogul still haunts his dreams. He has a whole bagful of grudging excuses for ignoring Carolines calland one compelling reason to drop everything and fly down to Texas to protect the daughter hes never met: guilt. As always, Dodges perseverance knows no bounds as he teams with a small-town sheriff, but the alarming situation worsens when the stalker claims other victims, leaving a trail of clues lethally pointing toward Berry. And Dodgea street-smart fighter who has always put his life on the linerealizes that this time, hes risking his heart as well…