"If a sleep-losing page-turner is your thing, keep an eye on Thea. She's one of the good guys."___Richard Barre, Shamus Award-winning author of The Innocents and Bearing Secrets.

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Thea Kozak is a woman who has prided herself on always being the strong one in a crisis. While she's usually not the one who starts the process, she seems to always be the one to clean up the messes - and she's had practice at it.

Thea is minutes away from finally marrying her long-time love Andre Lemieux – the state trooper who helped her discover the truth about her sister’s death, and the one person Thea can rely on to be strong for her. But Thea is left standing at the altar, and brought horrible news of Andre’s capture by forces unknown. The last place he was seen was near a small town in Maine that is a hotbed of right-wing conspiracy theorists … and lots of people with twitchy trigger fingers. Thea knows she shouldn’t get involved. Let the professionals do their job. Her job, for once, is to wait … and to pray. But that doesn’t sit too well with a woman who has taken pride in being in control of much of her life and who has triumphed over adversities that would make a battle-wary veteran sag.

And when the other half of your heart is threatened, safety and self-preservation - and maybe even sanity – take a back seat.

Click HERE to read Chapter One.