In this romantic thriller by Sandra Brown, the author of Smash Cut and Tough Customer, a woman puts her trust in a man with a lethal reputation.
When Honor Gillette’s four-year-old daughter tells her a sick man is in their yard, she rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, who is accused of murdering seven people the night before.
Dangerous, desperate and armed, Lee promises Honor that he won't hurt her as long as she does everything he asks. He has targeted Honor as he believes that her late husband possessed something top secret. An unlikely team, Coburn and Honor run for their lives, and unravel a frightening web of corruption and depravity.

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"Suspenseful surprises keep the pages turning ... It was anything but predictable." – Fiction DB