Skin Deep

Victoria MacDonald wants to die but finding a way to go beautifully is difficult. She's tenacious, and vows to find a way to leave this world with the beauty she fought so hard to attain. Somehow, her search for the perfect suicide turns into murder...Detective Amos Christianson answers a call about an intruder at Victoria's house. It's her second home invasion in less than a month, but this time she kills her attacker in self-defense. Something about Victoria's story stinks, though, and Amos can't let it go.He can't let Victoria go either.As they spiral into separate obsessions, their paths twist until neither can untangle themselves from the other, and Victoria's desperate search for a beautiful death forces Amos to make a drastic decision.But is the price for freeing himself of her insanity too high?