ISBN: 0778321436
Publisher: MIRA Books
Release Date: June 2005
List Price: $6.99

Reviewed by Terri Richison

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xcellent Story!

Ms. Young delivers a compelling story of suspense that will keep you turning pages and have you staying up late to finish the book.

Erica Stewart had a perfect life - a loving husband, a beautiful daughter and a thriving art career. Then a hit-and-run driver kills her family. Erica witnessed the accident, but the trauma has blocked the memory, so she is unable to provide the police with any clues that might lead to the arrest of the person who killed her family.

Haunted by memories, Erica lives a monastic life. For the next nine years she focuses all of her energy on her thriving boutique.

Hunter McCabe has a successful career as an architect and a ranch in the Texas hill country. Shopping for a birthday gift for his mother, he never expected to loose his heart-but that is exactly what happens when he enters Erica's boutique. Erica is the woman of his dreams, but she wants nothing to do with Hunter.

Still, he is excited to introduce her to his family, and is totally unprepared for their negative reaction. Why is his mother so adamantly opposed to this woman who has stolen his heart? And his sister is just down right rude, yet all of the women swear they have never met.

Hunter realizes that before Erica can move on with a new life, she must have closure to the horrible tragedy that killed her family. He is determined to find the hit and run driver and see that they are brought to justice. But someone will go to any lengths to insure those secrets stay buried in the past.

Several attempts are made on Erica's life and the would be killer appears to have information shared by only a few people-Will Hunter be able to save this woman he loves? Is his family somehow involved in this horrible web of deceit?

Don't miss this excellent, gripping tale of suspense.

Terri Richison writes women's fiction and is pursing a goal of publication with Silhouette Intimate Moments. Telling stories is a life long passion that started when she was a little girl, listening spellbound to the wonderful stories told by her Grandmother, who walked behind a covered wagon from Tennessee to Texas, encountering Indians and other hardships along the trail. Terri works part-time for a small law firm and is a full time slave to her one-hundred pound Lab and two fourteen-year-old Shelties. She has been happily married for over thirty years to her real-life hero, a man who shows her every day that romance is alive and well.