CHAPTER FOURTEEN As promised, Duran sent Kate an email less than five minutes after their phone conversation. Kate pored over it when she got back to her house and learned a great deal about her temporary partner. She did her best not to be too impressed but by the time she was done, Kate found that she was looking very forward to working with Kristen DeMarco. She recalled briefly meeting DeMarco during her meeting with Duran and Nash back in DC. She’d seemed calm, collected and somewhat formal. But based on what she had read in DeMarco’s dossier, Kate saw something else—something potentially special. So when the two women met at Amber Hills just after three o’clock that afternoon, Kate had high expectations. As Kate got out of her car and walked across the street to the generic governm