num_pages: 434
description: Some parents would die for their children. Others will do a whole lot worse.Emery Hazard and his husband John-Henry Somerset are settling into their new normalat home with the latest addition to their family and at work as Somers adapts to his new role and Hazard manages his expanding agency. The only thing Hazard is worried about is getting through dinner with his in-laws.When his father-in-law requests that Hazard and Somers join him for a weekend deer hunting it sounds simple enough: spend a night camping give their foster son a chance to spend time with his friend andpossiblyprevent a parental kidnapping. But nothing is ever as simple as it sounds. At deer camp Hazard and Somers find themselves drawn into a toxic family feud between parents battling for custody.After the husband is shot and killed deep in the forest detectives from the Sheriffs Department are convinced that the killer is a local extremista member of the neo-Nazi Ozark Volunteers. Hazard and Somers though arent so sure and as they probe deeper into the killing they find that many people had a reason to want the victim dead and the killing itself might not be what it seems.Then a drive-by shooting almost claims the lives of Hazard Somers and the victims wife. The killers work isnt done and Hazard and Somers must race to find the truth before the killer strikes again.
language: English
title: Custody Battles
publisher: Hodgkin & Blount