02746cam a2200385 i 4500 1856019734 TxAuBib 20220820120000.0 211210s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538752012 hardcover 1538752018 hardcover NjBwBT eng NjBwBT rda IMmBT NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Brown, Sandra, author. Overkill / Sandra Brown. Over kill. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. 406 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the responsibility and the glare of public scrutiny, Zach ultimately walks away, letting Rebecca's parents have the final say. Four years later, Rebecca's attacker, Eban--the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family--gets an early release from prison. The ludicrous miscarriage of justice reeks of favoritism, and Kate Lennon, a brilliant state prosecutor, is determined to bring him to justice. Rebecca's parents have kept her alive all these years, but if her condition were to change--if she were to die--Eban could be retried on a new charge: murder. Kate's mission to send Eban back to prison for good depends wholly on Zach. It isn't lost on him that in order for Eban to be charged with Rebecca's murder, Zach must actually be the one to kill her. He rejects Kate's legal standpoint, but can't resist their ill-timed attraction to each other. Eban, having realized the jeopardy he's in, plots to make certain that neither Zach nor Kate lives to see the death of Rebecca--and the end of his freedom"-- Provided by publisher. 20220820. cdpc522. Ex-convicts Fiction. Public prosecutors Fiction. Football players Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Divorced people Fiction. Coma Patients Fiction. Life support systems (Critical care) Moral and ethical aspects Fiction. Romance fiction. North Carolina Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)