Shy and deaf, twenty-three-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the US Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the floor dying from a gunshot wound. It is then Claire learns a secret that puts her in the crosshairs of the woman's killer. Claire's situation is compounded when her identical twin sister, Megan, flees Fort Worth for France after witnessing her boyfriend's murder. He was part of a team that stole a cache of jewels from a cartel. With multiple criminal elements in dogged pursuit, Claire and Megan hurtle down a twisted path of mortal danger. Alan Brenham is the pseudonym for Alan Behr, an author and attorney. He served as a law enforcement officer before earning a law degree and working as a prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney. He has traveled to several countries in Europe, the Middle East, Alaska, and almost every island in the Caribbean. While working with the US Military Forces, he lived in Berlin, Germany. Behr and his wife, Lillian, currently live in the Austin, Texas area.
