Gated Prey

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This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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“The people who live in these places think the gates protect them from all the crime and misery that's out there, but it doesn't. It just locks them in with it.”

“You think whatever happened came from within the gates?”

“I don't know where it came from, that's your job. But I'm sure there's as much evil inside these gates as there is outside of them. Maybe more.”

GATED PREY

“You're doing it again,” Duncan said.

“Doing what?”

“Obsessing over your case to the point of exhaustion. You need a life and some sleep. You can't physically, mentally, or emotionally sustain being relentless.” “

I'm only doing it now because we've got a ticking clock on this one.”

“You've done it on every case we've had.”

“You make it seem like years. We've only been working together for a few months. It hasn't been that long.”

Lost Hills

GATED PREY

“...I just got lucky.”

Duncan leaned against the wall and looked at her. “It isn't luck, Eve. It's instinct. You're a natural at this. What you haven't learned yet is how to do it without making enemies.”

* Or ears, come to think of it, Nicol Zanzarella does a great job with the audiobook narrations for these books.