In the Charm Chapter 1
Of all the decisions twenty-three-year-old Chris Friessen had made, his latest was likely to cost him in ways he hadn’t even begun to imagine, considering the flashing sheriff’s lights in his side mirrors. The car had ridden up on his ass until he’d pulled over, and he was now parked on a road—scratch that, a secondary highway in the middle of nowhere.
Actually, it wasn’t really nowhere. He’d covered roughly two hundred and twenty miles that day, with the heat and sun beating down, but he couldn’t rightly pinpoint exactly which county or, for that matter, state he was in. He’d pulled off the main highway crossing the country from east to west, and now he was having a hard time remembering whether he was in one of the Dakotas or in Montana, which, in his mind, put h
