The Last Word: A Novel

Police Chief Brill Jessup must run from a death threat even as she struggles to help her pregnant daughter make decisions about her future in this page-turner about God's power to heal the broken. When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father's abortion ultimatum, but hurt that she strayed from her upbringing.But that's not all Brill's got on her plate. One of her detectives has been killed, and the attacker has threatened to come for her next. When a second cop is wounded, public criticism mounts as Brill attempts to stay alive long enough to catch the perp. How can a police chief and a mother do her job with her life on the line? In a show of grace under pressure, Brill will manage to have the last word, even if it kills her.