Jove
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Featuring: Irene Stenson; Luke Danner
368 pages ISBN: 0515142506 EAN: 9780515142501 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela
Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school
summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped
Irene off at home—and Irene walked in to discover her
parents' bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-
suicide, and Irene fled the northern California town of
Dunsley. But seventeen years later, when Pamela sends a
cryptic e-mail asking for help, Irene returns to her
hometown to find her old friend has died suddenly, leaving
behind a lot of ugly, unanswered questions.
Caught up in a firestorm of desperate deceit and long-
buried secrets, Irene knows it would probably be smarter to
just pack up and leave Dunsley behind again, but her
reporter's instinct—and her own hunger to know the truth—
compel her to extend her stay at the local lodge. Even more
compelling is the man who runs the place—a hazel-eyed ex-
Marine who's as used to giving orders as Irene is to
ignoring them. Luke Danner can see the terror beneath Irene
Stenson's confident exterior—and he is intent on protecting
her. But he is also driven by passions of his own, and
together they will risk far more than local gossip to sort
out what happened to Pamela Webb, and what really happened
on that long-ago summer night. . . .