Bait / Karen Robards / 632 pages . St. Louis Challenge

Madeline Fitzgerald owns an advertising agency, Creative Partners.  She has a very important meeting with the wealthy owner of a pet food company in New Orleans.  If Maddie can secure this account, it will save her floundering company.  She is attacked and almost killed in her hotel room, bringing her to the attention of an FBI agent in search of an serial contract killer.  Set in St. Louis, Bait is filled with non-stop action, multiple plot line plausibilities, and, of course, romance.