Murder is not always murder. Survival is not always about winning.
For thirty-year old Jessa Brady, liberation from a bad marriage is short-lived when she becomes the prime suspect in her estranged husband’s murder. Against his better judgement, private investigator Cole James accepts her as a new client, but what begins as a quick, simple case of investigative work becomes complicated when Jessa’s family history reveals a series of disappearances and murders in the mountains surrounding a small Wyoming town.
Searching through her late grandmother’s belongings, Jessa discovers documentation telling a far different story from what she has been told, one that puts her and her daughter’s lives on a destructive path and is either an incredible true story or the ramblings of an insane woman who has lied to her granddaughter about everything, including a dead mother who is still alive.
The surprise inheritance of his aunt’s ranch in Colter, Wyoming, provides Cole an outlet at the end of a trying case that ended tragically and unresolved in Montana. Daily chores of a small cattle operation keep thoughts of revenge quieted, but not forgotten. Jessa and Cole fight a mutual attraction as he delves deeper into her situation, while local gossip prospers after they become suspects in her husband’s murder.
Ignoring his attorney’s advice to not work his own case, Cole travels back to the scene of Jack Brady’s murder to conduct a more thorough investigation. On the side of a snow-covered mountain, Cole’s past collides with his present case, endangering not only his life, but those of Jessa Brady and her daughter Claire. How far will he go to save the woman he loves?
Dance With the Moon is a novel about strength, survival, and timeless love.
