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Emma Wright has finally escaped the dangerous
man who's dominated her life for the past six years. She's taken her five-year-old
son, Max, and fled across the country, seeking freedom, safety, a fresh start.
But Max's father is no fool. And he isn't willing to give them up so easily. 
Just when you think you know someone...The
Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call
the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead,
and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-old
child. Then she discovers something in the crawl space beneath
her parents' house. Something that makes her question her father's innocence.
Or the innocence of someone else who's equally close to her... 
To support herself and her one-year-old daughter,
Gabrielle Hadley is working as a prison guard – just about the only job available
in the small desert town of Florence, Arizona. Randall Tucker
is a prisoner at Florence, convicted of murdering his wife. He has one goal: to
survive until he can prove his innocence – and reclaim his eight-year-old
son. When he escapes during a prison transfer, Gabrielle follows
him into the unforgiving desert. Within the course of a single day, staying alive
becomes the only thing that matters... 
To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra
Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England...though not as a captive aboard
a pirate's ship. Pirate captain Nathaniel Kent's strategy for
exacting revenge on his coldhearted father involved taking a valuable hostage...not
a seamstress he mistakenly thinks is his half sister. Yet fate
has designs of its own, landing them both on board the Royal Vengeance. At sea,
Nathaniel intercepts and plunders his father's ships, all the while tormented
by his illicit hunger for the tempting prisoner he thinks is his blood relation.
And although Alexandra wants no part in this terrifying voyage, to reveal her
true identity to the handsome, blue-eyed Nathaniel would invite danger.
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