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Prologue

 

Previously in A Life Less Tampered, we found out Sara was once a child protégé, detained at The Centre – an organization created to exploit gifted children for The Centre's benefit.

She escaped and found a home in college, Harvard. She bonded with a guest instructor, Dr. Gilbert Grissom, from the Las Vegas Crime Lab. But their joint plans for her to intern with him in the summer were set aside. She had been found, not by The Centre, but by a fellow detainee. Together they formed an alliance with the CIA and were able to put an end to the reign of terror at The Centre.

Afterwards, she disappeared.

It was a couple of years later, while working in San Francisco that Grissom met up with her again on a case. They shared a night of passion, a tryst that neither could resist, but he left the next day, returning to his home in Las Vegas.

When in desperate need of a neutral investigator he knew he could count on, Grissom called her to Vegas, to help him put some order back into a chaotic situation. Her instinct told her to keep on the move, so she moved away from San Francisco to the glitzy world of Las Vegas.

Three years later, she finds herself accused of tampering with evidence. She's arrested and fired from her job. Before a trial date can be set, she disappears... without a trace. Until months later when Grissom and the rest of his team are given leave time to attend a conference in Acapulco. They soon learn of Sara's past, and how she was set up for a crime she never committed.

She is unable to return to her home in Las Vegas, instead, working as an agent for hire for the CIA. She leaves them, Jarod and her former team, behind in Acapulco for an assignment in Virginia.

She has not been heard from since by those who love her most – their time together has been followed by six months of silence... and concern.