Game Plan: A Kira Brightwell Novel

Jacquelyn Smith

Summary

Kira Brightwell knows how to bring it—whether facing an opponent in the cage, or chasing down a criminal on a case.

Finally, four years after her abduction escape, she holds a tenuous link to the Procurer. A link that leaves her with more questions than answers. Questions that lead to unexpected places.

But Kira knows the serial abductor stopped underestimating her a long time ago.

...And she needs to tread carefully if she wants to outwit him.

The ongoing game of cat-and-mouse between Kira and the Procurer picks up the pace in this suspenseful fourth novel in the Kira Brightwell mystery series by the author of the Mackenzie Quinn mysteries, Jacquelyn Smith.

(Originally published under the pen name Kat Irwin.)

Available since: 12/04/2019.

Print length: 218 pages.

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