The Return

Sharon Sala

Publisher: MIRA

Summary

Surprises await a young woman when she comes home to bury her grandmother in this romantic suspense tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. 
 
As a legacy of hatred erupts in a shattering moment of violence, a dying mother entrusts her newborn daughter to a caring strange. . . . Now, twenty-five years later, Catherine Fane has come home to Camarune, Kentucky, to bury the woman who’d raised her, bringing a blood feud to its searing conclusion. 
 
At the cabin in the woods where she was born, Catherine is drawn to the ravaged town and its violent past. But her arrival has not gone unnoticed. A stranger is watching from the woods, a shattered old man is witnessing the impossible, and Sheriff Luke DePriest’s only thoughts are to keep Catherine safe from the sleeping past she has unwittingly awoken . . .

Available since: 10/15/2014.

Print length: 234 pages.

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