The sexual tension between these two is high. Could she perhaps actually be psychic? Before he can make up his mind, Sophie has another violent vision in his presence and they race off to try to prevent another murder. But she has many all-too-perceptive and disturbing insights into his past and his character. And the longer he stays, the more he is drawn to Sophie, who is attractive and unflinchingly honest and protective of those she loves. Inevitably, he does discover some dirty secrets, but not the ones he came to find.

Mick has no qualms about prying into the life of everyone else in the house, including going through their rooms in the effort to find a connection. Although Mick quickly comes to the conclusion that Sophie is innocent and her alibi checks out, he figures the murderer must be someone she knows. It doesn’t help that Sophie can’t turn her powers off-and-on at will, so she can’t convince him of her powers simply by predicting the winners of the next horse race. The other four boarders who live in the house with them are all rather eccentric and they all know Sophie to be the Real Deal. To keep an eye on her as either a suspect or material witness, Mick decides to rent a room from Sophie’s slightly batty Aunt Violet with whom she lives. When later that same evening an attempt is made on his life in the very location Sophie foresaw, he immediately decides Sophie is either the guilty party or protecting the same.

Yet, despite the fact that he doesn’t believe her story for one second, he takes down the pertinent information, including the location where the murder will occur. Brawny and handsome, Mick is a dedicated cop who has risen quickly in the ranks and likes both his facts and his life neat and orderly. This time, she has seen an image of a violent murder that she wants desperately to prevent, but when she goes to the police to report her vision, Sophie discovers that the victim she foresaw is none other than one of the detectives taking down her statement – Inspector Mick Dunbar. Sophie Haversham is an impoverished gentlewoman who can sometimes see the future in her dreams.

Not So Innocent by Laura Lee Guhrke