After Night Falls: Walking away from everything, she sought shelter on the river...vanished almost completely out of sight & then he found her.

Book 1: Secrets of the River

by Jacie Middlemann

Genres: Romance; Romantic Suspense; Family Life; Cozy Mystery; Private Investigators; Action & Adventure Romance; Family Drama; New Orleans; Cruise Murder Mystery; history and mystery; romance mystery; amateur sleuth mystery; New Orleans fiction; police romance

Synopsis

Tragedy, secrets, and heartache. It’s been the story of her life for years. Abigail knew that she should be afraid of him…but she wasn’t. Not even when he told her who he was…and why he was there.

She’d taken a job on the cruise ship years ago with the thought that if she was never in any one place for very long she would be safe. No one would ever think to look for her here.

At least that’s what she believed.

Gabe had suspected for a couple of days that something wasn’t quite right. He’d taken this particular job thinking it would be a simple deal and tied up quickly and easily. Too bad the client had been less than forthcoming. That never worked well for anyone involved.

Then there was the additional fact that Abigail wasn’t anything like what he’d been led to expect once he found her. But then nothing about this job was turning out the way he expected it would and least of all…Abigail.

Drama, regrets, and lies. Gabe wasn’t thrilled to be dealing with any of one of those circumstances and all three combined was turning out to be a recipe for disaster. Already it had brought both he and Abigail, though years apart, from where the towering mountains of Colorado filled every imaginable view to the forever flowing waters of the Mississippi River where Abigail had taken refuge from the danger that pursued her years ago…and still did.

Then he finds out that she has more than one home…and not the one he already knows about. He certainly hadn’t picked up on that piece of information during his investigation. But at the same time he took comfort in knowing that if he hadn’t found it…it was unlikely that anyone else would either.

And though Abigail made light of the threat posed by the man who was now taking extreme measures to find her, it was obvious to him that she was silently terrified that he would.

As far as Gabe was concerned, that simply wasn’t going to happen.

If you enjoy women’s fiction, characters who are strong and compassionate but aren’t perfect, entangled and sometimes complicated family relationships, the Secrets of the River series may be for you.

Soon to come…Midnight in Darkness.

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Release date: September 30, 2021

Print pages: 146