Diamonds and Cole: Cole Sage Mystery, Book 1

In the first Cole Sage book, we find Cole at the low point of his career.

Now, he's returned to the paper where he started his career, The Chicago Sentinel.

Instead of writing the big stories, he's doing the work of a rookie reporter.

His 'big story of the day' is a cat caught in a tree.

During its rescue, the cat's owner takes her Good Samaritan neighbor hostage.

Cole witnesses something so disturbing it reawakens the journalist's desire to write again.

Returning to the paper, Cole finds a desperate message asking for help from Ellie, one that got away.

The one that has continually haunted his life.

Cole drops everything and flies to California.

He must find what would make her so desperate, she would call him after so many years.

Cole finds her terminally ill, and abandoned by her husband.