Connor. Marquette Security, #5

This is the fifth and final book in the Marquette Security series, with over 80, 000 words of romantic suspense. On the night of Connor Marquette's seventeenth birthday, his best friend, Lydia Irvine, was brutally murdered. That's why he left town, joined the military, and then started his own security and private investigation firm. But he never expected Lydia's unsolved case to come back and haunt him the way it has been for the past six months.
He knows that it's time to go back to his hometown and solve Lydia's case once and for all, and he's going to need the help of an old high school friend, Whitney, to do it. Just when he thinks he's making progress in the case, it suddenly becomes clear that everything he thought he knew about his past and the people in it couldn't have been more wrong, and if he doesn't act quickly enough, Whitney is going to pay the price. Connor will have to face his demons-even the ones he didn't know he had-and it's only Whitney that can make it all worth it in the end, if he can just get to her in time.