Teacher Bethany Mills was certain the past was buried - until ruthless Brett Hanson dug it up again. The private investigator had tracked Bethany to Oregon and was hell-bent on recovering the fortune her ex-husband had embezzled in Boise. Though Brett's motives made Bethany uneasy, his masculine persuasion proved hard to resist. But once she agreed to cooperate in his search, mysterious threats prompted Brett to protect her - in the romantic seclusion of his mountain cabin. While wintery winds raged out doors. Bethany battled an inner storm of dark suspicions...and sweet seduction.
Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Follow your gut. Bethany is trying to make a new life for herself. Brett throws a wrench into her plans. She is being followed. Brett is trying to find her ex. His stepfather is harassing her parents. Brett has omitted that Benson is his stepfather. The story ends with a Happily Ever After.