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Chapter Thirteen Summary

Back on track with the summary posts. Only 28 days until Finding Jenna is released and 20 chapter summaries left.


William Defoe goes into his role as Darren Parker and pretends he was trying to do Michael Matthews a favor when he helped Darlene Matthews pack her stuff. Matthews is angry about it, but blows Defoe off when he offers to hang out and watch a movie after getting a phone call. Matthews heads to Owensboro not long after Defoe leaves his house because he thinks Jenna is in a hospital there. He gets a call from Ruby, a nurse at the hospital letting him know that the girl they thought was Jenna had been released from the hospital into the custody of people who were supposed to be her family. Ruby also lets Matthews know that the leader of the Cobra cartel, C1, wants him to dispose of a package that they both know is the body of another woman who was killed C1 has killed.

Chapters 9-12 Summaries

I'm posting Chapters 9-12's summaries today because they all deal with Jenna being in the hospital. And because this weekend is going to be super busy and I might not get a chance to post. I really appreciate everyone who visits my blog to read about this story. I hope you'll stay tuned in.  Here are the chapter summaries:


Chapter Nine
Jenna wakes in the hospital in pain and confusion. She flailed her arms and legs trying to get up, but was quickly subdued and given a sedative to put her back to sleep. Dana Tamaski, the FBI agent assigned to watch over Jenna hopes it won’t be long before Jenna will be able to wake up and give them a description of the body she saw in the freezer.
Chapter Ten
Dana returned to Jenna’s hospital room the next morning to find that nothing had changed. The other agent assigned to watch Jenna, Ada Parsons and Dana discuss the fact that they need Jenna to be able to describe the body so they can tie Michael Matthews to a missing person.
Chapter Eleven
Jenna wakes up in the hospital and doesn’t remember how she got there. Dana questions her about who she is. Jenna recognizes her name, her mother and Cara, but seeing the picture of Cara brings back the memories of her father beating her. Jenna goes into a panic and the nurses give her something to put her to sleep again.
Chapter Twelve
Jenna wakes up to find Special Agent Dana Tamaski watching her. Dana gives Jenna a legal pad and pen so Jenna can ask and answer questions. Jenna wants to know how long she’s been there and where her mother is. Dana explains why Jenna is there. A nurse comes in the room and Jenna lets Dana know that she doesn’t trust her. Dana calls Jonas and let’s him know about the suspicious nurse and that they need to move Dana. Jonas sends in an extraction team that pretends to be Jenna’s parents and they remove her from the hospital with the suspicious nurse watching their every move.

Chapter Eight Summary

When Darren and Darlene get back to the Matthews’ house, Darren gets a chance to look in Darlene’s trunk for the body when he takes some of her clothes out to her car. The trunk is empty and looks like it’s been recently vacuumed. Darren has one of the crime scene techs check it for fluids with Luminal and an Alternative Light Source torch, but there’s no fluid evidence. The crime scene tech notes that he thought it was weird that there weren’t any fluids in the freezer when Michael Matthews was supposed to be a big hunter and fisherman.

Chapter Seven Summary

Federal agent William Defoe goes back into his role as Darren Parker as he helps Darlene Matthews go back to the hospital where she works to get her phone and purse. Defoe has been undercover for two years closely watching Michael Matthews in an effort to get more information about the Cobra Cartel’s human trafficking activities. The FBI was very close to closing in on the leaders of the cartel, as well as getting more evidence about Michael Matthews’ involvement with the cartel. Jenna Matthews having be rescued from her father has put the operation’s success in question. And, Defoe needs to find the body Jenna saw in the freezer.

Summary Chapter Six Finding Jenna

Terry has Cara walk her mother and him through what happened that night from the moment she arrived until she left. After Cara told him her version of what happened, Terry took them to the front porch of the Matthews’ house where Detective McKenzie Dean has just arrived. Terry asked McKenzie to come to the scene because she specializes in missing persons. After McKenzie talks to Cara, Terry and she start to go inside the house but are called back outside when Darlene Matthews arrives. Darlene and Michael Matthews are yelling at each other. When Darlene goes after Michael, he slaps her to the ground and McKenzie orders the officers to arrest him. Darlene thinks Jenna runaway. McKenzie thinks Cara might be helping Jenna hide. Terry’s gut tells him that Jenna is gone.

Summary for Chapter Five

Sorry I'm running a late posting Chapter Five of Finding Jenna's summary. It's been one of those days. Enjoy!


Terry Howard watches Michael Matthews walking away with a city patrolman to be questioned about Jenna’s disappearance. Terry and Michael had been friends until they had gotten into a fight over a case of a missing girl that Terry refused to believe was just a runaway case. Another reason they stopped being friends was because Terry didn’t like the way Michael treated his wife, Darlene and Jenna. He’d suspected that one day Michael would cross a line that would get him busted for domestic violence. If Michael really beat Jenna up the way Cara described, this would be that point when he crossed that line.

Chapter Four Summary

Cara Marshall called 911 as she was leaving the Matthews’ house. The city police department, county sheriff’s deputy, fire and rescue teams rushed to the Matthews’ house to find a bloody scene in Jenna’s bedroom, but Jenna and her father were not there. Terry Howard, the city police department’s lead investigator, and a former friend and coworker of Michael Matthews is on the scene. Detective Howard is questioning Cara about what happened when Michael Matthews shows up, demanding entry into his house, and telling a very different story from Cara’s version of what happened to Jenna.

Chapter Three Summary

FBI agent, William Defoe knocks Michael Matthews unconscious with the chair from Jenna’s desk when he arrives at the Matthews house and sees him beating Jenna. Defoe picks up the unconscious Jenna and takes her through the woods at the end of the Matthews’ yard to the edge of a ravine by a highway where to more FBI agents are waiting. They whisk Jenna away while Defoe explains to his boss the Jenna will need medical attention and that he didn’t a chance to see the dead body. Jenna wakes long enough to tell them that her father moved the body with her mother’s car.

Chapter Two Summary

Jenna remembers that her girlfriend, Cara Marshall is supposed to come over to study with her. She tries to catch Cara to warn her not to come over, but Cara is already her house. Before Jenna can get Cara out of the house, her father shows up and starts beating Jenna. Jenna’s father assaults Cara when she tries to help Jenna. Cara leaves to get help and Jenna’s father beats Jenna until he finally rendered her unconscious.

Chapter One Summary

As promised, here's the summary of Chapter One from Finding Jenna:
Jenna Matthews is home doing homework when her father, Michael Matthews comes home during his shift as a sheriff’s deputy for the Vanderburgh Police Department. It’s very unusual for her father to come home during his shift, and even more unusual for him to come home in his truck. Curiosity drove Jenna to the garage after her father left and she finds the dead body of a young woman in a body bag in her father’s freezer. Jenna realizes she cannot call the local authorities so she called the FBI. Before they could get a team to the house, Jenna’s father returned and took the book away in her mother’s car.