Exclusive

Exclusive by Sandra Brown
Adult Fiction- Main Level– BROWN

Barrie Travis is a TV journalist with a shaky tract record of news stories. Barrie was surprised when she received a phone call from the First Lady of the United States Vanessa Merritt inviting her to lunch. Barrie is perplexed by this; the lunch is awkward especially when the death of Mrs. Merritt’s baby is brought up. Robert Rushton Merritt was only 3 months old when he died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Vanessa was very distraught during the lunch and Barrie was unsure what made Vanessa reach out to her. After the lunch Barrie had the idea to do a news series on SIDS and Vanessa agreed to be interviewed. During the interview Vanessa seemed very controlled, not at all the like distraught upset mother she was a few weeks ago during the initial lunch. Barrie took Vanessa’s change in demeanor to mean that Vanessa did not believe that her son died of SIDS but was actually murdered. Barrie decided to look further in baby Merritt’s death. She called her source at the local hospital and discovered that there was never an autopsy done on little Robert. What was even more concerning, her source seemed to disappear: she left her job and her apartment with no forwarding address. Barrie immediately realized she was on a hot story. She tried to set up another interview with the First Lady but Vanessa went into seclusion and Barrie was denied access. Barrie decided to follow another course of action; she tracked down Gray Bondurant in Wyoming. It was rumored that Gray and Vanessa has a secret affair and he was really the father of her child. Gray follows Barrie back to Washington DC only to discover that the story is bigger than they thought. Barrie’s townhouse is fire-bombed and they are being followed. Barrie and Gray are taking on the White House. Will they ever prove the baby Robert was murdered and by whom? They are in a race against time to get the truth out and save Vanessa and themselves from the same fate that poor Robert experienced.