Fashion designer Kate Whitehead looks to have found the
American dream. She has the mansion on the hill, a career
that is taking off and her husband is California Senator
Thomas Whitehead. What the world doesn't know is that
Thomas is an egotistical, narcissistic SOB who thinks he can
control everything and everyone around him by relying on his
boyish good looks. He believes he is above law and he knows
enough people to make any problem go away.
Kate has been living with this man for ten years and taken
his abuse believing she could never get away from him. One
night after Kate becomes pregnant Thomas attacks her,
hitting her in the stomach until she agrees to what he wants
in order to save her unborn child. The next morning as soon
as Thomas leaves for work, Kate leaves and promises she will
never return. For a time Thomas is suspected of her
disappearance but when no proof is found, he plays the
grieving husband and gains everyone's sympathy.
Kate escapes to a woman's shelter in San Diego and changes
her name to Trica Campbell. Feeling desperate, alone, and
unloved Kate goes to a bar and meets Scott McCall. Scott
offers her a place to live, no strings attached; no
questions about the past and either of them can call it
quits without having to explain.
After two years Trica and Scott are still together with her
son Taylor. Taylor calls him "daddy", and Scott loves the
boy as if he were his own. The love between Trica and Scott
is the kind of love every little girls dreams of and every
woman wants. But, tangled with their love are the many
secrets that make a happy future almost impossible.
Then the day comes when the secrets start to unravel. Trica
see a headline in the San Francisco Gazette-- Leah
Montgomery has disappeared and Senator Thomas Whitehead is
the main suspect. Leah was Kate's best friend, but she
never told her about the abuse she suffered at the hands of
her husband. According to the papers Leah and Thomas
supported each other after Kate's disappearance and started
a relationship. Unknown to everyone, Thomas was using Leah
to keep the press and police from thinking he killed Kate.
There is also a rumor that Leah was pregnant when she
disappeared.
With Leah's disappearance, Thomas is charged with the
murders of both Kate Whitehead and Leah Montgomery.
Trica/Kate knows she has to go back to San Francisco and
acknowledge that she is still alive. The Prosecutor is
asking for the death penalty and as much as she fears and
despises her husband, she cannot allow him to be convicted
of her murder. Kate believes with all of her heart that
Thomas killed Leah and she plans to prove it with the help
of Leah's sister, who people are referring to as "crazy",
because she will not allow Thomas to sweep her sister's
disappearance under the rug like he did before. She also
knows that Thomas abused Kate.
This is an excellent book. This is the first book I have
ever read of Ms. Quinn's but it won't be the last. From
page 1 this book grabbed my attention and never let go. I
thought I would read a couple of chapters one night before
bed and at the end of chapter 12, had to make myself put the
book down so that I could get a couple of hours of sleep. I
finished the book the next morning. Ms. Quinn brings the
characters alive and makes you feel you know them. I found
myself trying to give Kate advice and wanting to strangle
Thomas. The night before Kate returns to San Francisco and
leaves Scott is heartbreaking.
I will be re-reading this one. Ms. Quinn did an excellent
job.Take my advice and don't pass this book up. If this
site used stars, I'd give 6 out of 5.
Kate Whitehead is now Tricia Campbell, living an ordinary
life in an ordinary San Diego neighborhood.
Two years ago, she escaped her powerful and abusive
husband and became a different person. She did it for her
own safety – and that of her unborn child.
In the last year, Tricia has found a measure of happiness
with paramedic Scott McCall, although he knows nothing of
her real background. They live as a family, Tricia and
Scott and her son. Then, one morning, she reads something
in the paper that threatens her newfound life. Her
husband, Thomas Whitehead, has been charged with her
murder…
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