Tai Randolph
2 primary works • 4 total works
Book 5
Reckoning and Ruin. That's what Savannah is to Tai Randolph who's gladly rebooted her life in Atlanta and is celebrating several landmarks. A year running the Confederate - themed gun shop she inherited with its busy schedule of reenactments. A year with her sexy, ex - SWAT - team lover Trey, now working a corporate security gig, who's having to reboot his own life and brain after a terrible auto accident. A year of confronting a checkered list of ruffians and outright villains, mostly now put behind bars. One of those convicted criminals is her cousin Jasper, whose disreputable family was a big part of Tai's childhood in Savannah. Tai is determined to keep her amateur sleuthing in the past, not just for her sake, but for Trey's. But here comes Jasper again, complete with a fancy, high - priced new lawyer and a scheme that will surely ruin Tai and Trey financially. But is there more? Jasper, the leader of a white militia splinter group too violent for even the Klan, must be up to something worse than wrecking Tai's life. When other witnesses against Jasper start turning up dead, she decides she has to take him down once and for all.
And act on her own, a strategy that high - adrenaline Tai has been working to modify in her life with Trey. Soon she's back in Savannah and deep in familiar troubles - a missing ex - boyfriend, a creepily poetic stalker, a passel of stolen money. She's forced to confront old memories and older ghosts, including an uncomfortable reunion with her Uncle Boone, who's keeping secrets he'd rather die with than reveal. Worst of all, her relationship with Trey starts to fray, and she realizes that chasing the truth might cost her the man she loves. Reckoning and Ruin is the fifth in an exquisitely crafted series filled with atmosphere, humor, deep emotional connections, and surprising plots.
And act on her own, a strategy that high - adrenaline Tai has been working to modify in her life with Trey. Soon she's back in Savannah and deep in familiar troubles - a missing ex - boyfriend, a creepily poetic stalker, a passel of stolen money. She's forced to confront old memories and older ghosts, including an uncomfortable reunion with her Uncle Boone, who's keeping secrets he'd rather die with than reveal. Worst of all, her relationship with Trey starts to fray, and she realizes that chasing the truth might cost her the man she loves. Reckoning and Ruin is the fifth in an exquisitely crafted series filled with atmosphere, humor, deep emotional connections, and surprising plots.
Book 6
Tai Randolph doesn't want to hear about homicide. She's had enough of the dark and the dangerous, and decides some time out of Atlanta is exactly what she needs to put the recent spate of corpses behind her. It's a idyllic vision - selling her wares at the Savannah Civil War Expo, attending a few Confederate re - enactments, perhaps a little romantic rendezvousing with Trey, who has agreed to put aside the corporate security agent routine and join her for a long weekend in her hometown. But in the South, the past is never past. It tends to rise again. In Tai's case, it shows up as her tattooed heartbreaker of an ex - boyfriend, desperate for her help. He spins a tale of betrayal, deceit, and a stolen Civil War artifact that Tai agrees to help him recover. Suddenly, Trey's on the case too, representing a competing - and well - moneyed - client with eyes on the same mythical prize. As the lovers square off against each other, Tai discovers that her complicated boyfriend makes an even more intriguing adversary, revealing a ferociously competitive streak under his cool Armani exterior.
But where there's money, there's usually murder, this time involving the KKK and Tai's unapologetically unreconstructed kinfolk. As she unravels the clues to a 150 - year - old mystery, she digs up secrets from her own past - and Trey's - forcing a confrontation with a ruthless killer, and with her own willingness to do whatever it takes to save everything that matters.
But where there's money, there's usually murder, this time involving the KKK and Tai's unapologetically unreconstructed kinfolk. As she unravels the clues to a 150 - year - old mystery, she digs up secrets from her own past - and Trey's - forcing a confrontation with a ruthless killer, and with her own willingness to do whatever it takes to save everything that matters.
The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle's gun shop is more demanding than she imagined. Her best friend from childhood, Rico, is competing for a national slam poetry title worth a bundle. And Atlanta is overrun with fame-hungry performance poets clogging all the good bars. Tai is also handling her new relationship with corporate security agent Trey Seaver. SWAT-trained and rule-obsessed, his brain rewired by a devastating car crash, Trey is geared for statistics and flow charts, not romance. And while Tai finds him fascinating, dating a human lie detector who can kill with his bare hands is a precarious endeavor. Then one of Rico's fellow poets is murdered...and Rico becomes the prime suspect. Tai, springing to his defense with every trick in her book-a little lying here, some snooping there-quickly learns all the poets harbor secrets. And someone has an agenda that's either positively heroic or downright deadly....