num_pages: 352
description: A prison inmate on furlough learns a terrible secret about his sisters mysterious deathand descends back into the criminal underworld to uncover the truth. Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When hes given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abbys funeral he learns that her body was never foundjust enough blood to declare her dead instead of missingand he begins to suspect that theres more to her death than was reported. Ethan decides to use his forty-eight-hour window to find out what happened. But to get to the bottom of the mystery hell have to return to his unsavory past. Ethan teams up with his sisters best friend Whitney in a search for the truth. United in their shared grief their chemistryboth emotional and physicalalso begins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethans old boss Shark a mid-level loan shark now heads a criminal empire. As Ethan and Whitney uncover more clues they become convinced that Shark is responsible for the murder but they have no proof. If Ethan is going to solve his sisters murder in forty-eight hours he will have to become the criminal he swore hed never be again.
language: English
title: 48 Hours to Kill
publisher: Crooked Lane Books