Trying to avoid her "gift," Beth Dearborn is now an insurance investigator for Avery Mutual after retiring three years ago from the Chicago Police Department as a homicide detective. Beth's special gift has earned her recognition and notoriety in solving previous cases. Arriving in Brubaker, Tennessee, Beth meets a very sexy farmer when he changes her flat tire. Beth has been sent to prove, or disprove, the death of Lorilee Brubaker Malone, since Avery Mutual holds a $1 million life insurance policy. Lorilee has been missing for seven years, leaving behind her husband Ty and three children.

Arriving at the Malone farm, Beth is unable to avoid the spirit in the farmhouse who died a violent death there. Having to remain at the Malone farm due to the bridge being washed out from a storm, Beth is shocked to find that sexy rescuer is Ty Malone. Beth is also aware that her "gift" is staging a comeback. Beth and Ty eventually reach a level of hot, mind-blowing sex on an empathic level Beth has never before achieved.

Threatened with cut brake lines and flying bullets, Beth has found her killer. Opening up for an encounter with Lorilee's spirit, the truth of her death is apparent. Facing off with the killer, Beth fears her own possible demise. Surviving the encounter, Beth must evaluate her true wants and needs for the future. Can it include Ty?

THE GIFT is an extremely exciting thriller full of the extraordinary; fascinating and exceptionally entertaining. Deb Stover has a gift for capturing and keeping your attention throughout the entire novel. The story is unique and unlike other stories of this nature. I found this an extremely difficult book to put down. Each page turns itself. A must-read if you want that "different" but really exciting thriller.

Book Summary

Blood. Rivers of it.
The visions are overwhelming. They come every time Beth visits the scene of a murder. She lives the victim’s last moments, feels the pain, sees the perp. And it’s driving her mad.

A flat tire. A deserted country road. A man too hot to be true.
Trading life as a Chicago homicide detective for a job as a nomadic insurance inspector was supposed to keep her safe. Ty Malone is anything but. What isn’t he revealing about the missing person’s claim on his ‘runaway’ wife? What really happened to beautiful Lorilee Brubaker-Malone? And just how far will Ty take his seduction of the one woman whose gift can uncover the terrifying truth?