When a small-town speechwriter witnesses a murder, she must rely on the protection of a handsome FBI agent to survive the dangerous world of the Mafia and find unexpected love.
Marooned in the wilderness during a global nuclear attack, a British woman finds herself stranded in the woods with three hunky American soldiers when the rescue mission is cut short. These gruff thugs are far from her type, but she finds herself entangled with one of them, then two…then all three!
Excerpt
Every morning now I take a walk in the woods, before the others wake and start complaining. It’s been eleven days since we’ve heard anything other than birds and bugs and the small waves lapping on the shore of the lake.
Eleven days ago, we were all just passengers on a flight from LA to New York. Half the people were asleep when I first noticed something was amiss. The flight attendant was crying, running down the aisle. Just as I was opening my phone to check whether there had been some update on the war, the captain came on and told us we had to make an emergency landing. The war had escalated, and bombs were being lobbed across the Pacific in both directions. We had to get out of the air immediately.
The pilots were forced to land on a lake in North Dakota. The landing was rough, but they managed to skim across the lake and come to a jarring halt on a sandy bank. We all clapped.
Since then, we’ve been trying to ration our food, hoping someone will come for us, but I’m unconvinced. If bombs were dropped on American cities, who would care about a group so small, and one who didn’t need to be evacuated to avoid radiation poisoning? We’re too far away from any major cities to be at risk of nuclear fallout.
Former piano prodigy-turned FBI agent Scott Drayco is still suffering nightmares from his last case as a private consultant. To add insult to injury, he’s bequeathed an unwanted and rundown Opera House in Cape Unity, a down-on-its-luck seaside village where vacation homes were once a playground for the rich.
His hopes for a quick sale are dashed when a new client with dreams of his own redemption is murdered in the Opera House, the letter “G” mockingly carved into his chest. Working with a wary Sheriff, Drayco has to navigate a complicated maze of illicit love affairs and hostility over immigration and coastal development.
But Drayco’s confidence in his decision-making abilities is shaken when the flirtatious and lonely wife of a Town Councilman almost derails Drayco’s efforts with her attempts to seduce him, despite the fact she had an affair with the victim. Then, one mystery turns to two, as Drayco learns of a famous Polish pianist whose last concert was at the Opera House fifty years ago – and was murdered after returning home.
Drayco is pulled into a tangled web of jealousy and betrayal that reaches across the Atlantic into some of the darkest days of human history. But will he be able to untangle the threads before the tensions in Cape Unity explode into more violence and he becomes the next victim?
“An engaging lead and atmospheric setting make for an ideal travel read.” – Library Journal
“Lawson uses the gothic features of the abandoned Opera House to great effect, creating an atmospheric background for the crimes and the solving of them, all of it accompanied with music that’s almost like another character. The pace never sagged and it kept me enthralled.” – Long and Short Reviews
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