Guy: What are you reading?Me: It's this book about a woman who is on the run from a hit man. She leaves her entire life to hide in Key West.Guy: Why does he want to kill her?Me: She saw him kill somebody, testified against him during the trial, and then the verdict was thrown out. He thinks that if he kills her, she won't be able to testify against him at the retrial.Guy: But if you kill a witness, their testimony from previous trials still goes on the record. So that wouldn't even work. Why was the verdict thrown out?Me: Apparently a juror knew the victim's widow - they went to nursery school together.Guy: That's all? I don't think they'd throw out a verdict for a nursery school connection. Why don't the cops help her?Me: The hit man had a cop he bought off and that cop happened to be the one assigned to track his movements. Also, she hired a bodyguard - she had enough money to do that - but she didn't like feeling watched. It made her uncomfortable.Guy: Yeah, it's so much better just to abandon your life, job, and home than to feel uncomfortable.Me: Anyway, she marries a total stranger so she can change her name.Guy: But a name change like that leaves a record. She'd be easy to find then. Why would a total stranger marry her?Me: He wants a judge to give him custody of his niece so he has to marry a respectable woman to impress the judge.Guy: So she didn't even tell him that a hit man was after her?Me: No, she did.Guy: And he lets her around his niece? That's crazy.Me: Yeah, there are lots of holes. I don't even know why I'm still reading it.Guy: Let me guess - they fall in love and overcome danger.Me: I haven't finished it yet, but probably. Probably.
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