Pareceu-lhe ver um vulto em cima da cama, e sentiu-se ignorado. Irritado, tacteou a parede à procura do interruptor e acendeu-o com gestos bruscos. Ao olhar para a cama, porém, estacou. A mulher jazia na cama, de pernas e braços abertos. Estava vestida com uma diminuta camisa de noite, e os olhos fitavam o vazio, sem realmente o ver. Um pedaço de tecido estava enrolado na sua garganta, enquanto os braços se encontravam solidamente presos às colunas da cama. Só quando passos ecoaram no corredor é que parte do seu cérebro registou que os sons desconexos que ouvia era a sua própria voz, a gritar aterrorizado.

Decided to start over, Summer accepts a teaching position in Paradise Mountains highschool, where she is reunited with her old professor. She has sworn off men, but the new Martial Arts teacher thinks otherwise and is decided to know better the cute teacher and her sassy four year old daughter. But in Paradise Mountains not everything is what it seems. Something dark is lurking in the shadows, someone who is hellbent on destroying the young woman. Soon, Summer finds herself between in mortal danger. How can she protect her daughter and herself when all the she loves hangs by a thread? Aidan is a man with secrets and a past of his own. If there is something he has learned is that everything that is good is worthwhile saving. What he didn't expect was to be a pawn on a deadly chess game. ***** This is Book Two in Paradise Mountains series. Please read "Running from the Past", the first book in the series.

Married to an abusive man, Nadine fakes her death after being sent to the hospital for months and runs with what little she has. Even her father seemed to think that marriage was for life, no matter how bruised and battered the woman was, Destiny, or a broken car, brings her to a small city lost in the mountains, where everyone seems to know everyone, making here the outsider. Luckily, the tourist season is fast approaching and so she can rest and try to rebalance her life. Meeting the locals but avoiding connections, she tries to keep her distance but Alexander, the local Sheriff, is as determined to meet her as she is at keeping him at an arm's lenght. Persuasive and charismatic, he tries to take down her barriers and Nadine finds herself atracted by the charismatic sheriff. But her husband already knows she is alive... and he wants her back. Wether she wants it or not. ******* This is Book One in Paradise Mountains Series. Book Two - Betrayed By Him Book Three - Healing Waters