For seventeen years, Nick, Aurelie, and Sarah have lived
in Point Judah, Louisiana, but never forgot what they ran
away from. The three of them lived in a commune called The
Refuge run by a man named Collin. The Refuge was supposed
to be a place where people lived a life free of
materialism, but it became something more sinister. Collin
supposedly picked up runaway children and helped them find
their way home to their families. Nick's mother, Mary
Chance, knew better. There was something suspicious about
where these children truly ended up, and she doubted it
was with their families. Aurelie and Sarah are sisters
that ran away from home and came to live with The Refuge.
Mary looked over them like a mother would. When Mary
thought The Refuge was becoming too dangerous for her son
Nick and the two girls, she sent them away to live with
her friend Delia Board in Point Judah, Louisiana.
Now seventeen years later, Nick, Aurelie and Sarah are all
grown up and the people of Louisiana believe them to be
brother and sisters adopted by Delia Board, the CEO of
Wilkes and Board Cosmetics. When the family hears the news
that 33 bodies were found in a gold mine in San Francisco,
they are devastated and in fear for their lives. They
assume Collin killed everyone in the Refuge and is on the
hunt for them to cover up his tracks.
After a coworker at Wilkes and Board Cosmetics is found
dead, the Boards become very fearful that Collin is the
culprit. The police suspect Nick is involved in the murder
of the young woman at Wilkes and Board because he used to
date her. All signs are pointing towards Nick as the
murderer but he insists he is innocent.
In the meantime, Nick and Aurelie have their own problems
to deal with. They have posed as brother and sister for a
long time but in reality are not blood related. They have
been hiding their feelings for each other out of fear of
destroying their family. Sarah is in love with Nick and
would be heart broken if she found out Nick and Aurelie
are secretly in love. Will the Board family be broken up
when they announce their true feelings for each other?
TARGET was my first experience with a book by Stella
Cameron. I love books that start off with a bang and keep
you interested until the last page, and this was that type
of book. The relationship between the main characters was
forbidden and that added to the intrigue of the story. The
reader will not be able to figure out who the culprit is
until the end. I loved the romance between the two main
characters. I highly recommend this book to readers who
enjoy romantic suspense.
Nearly two decades ago a charismatic man called Colin
controlled an isolated community hidden in foothills north
of San Francisco in what was supposed to be a life free of
materialism. Instead, Colin turned The Refuge into a mass
grave as he completed a sinister plan to exterminate his
followers—all except three children, who slipped through his
fingers and escaped with his secrets.
Today,
Nick Board and the two beautiful sisters, Sarah and Aurelie,
who escaped with him, are living quietly under the radar in
the little bayou town of Point Judah, Louisiana. But when
the bodies at The Refuge are uncovered, the nightmare of the
past forces the friends out into the open. To survive, they
must stay one step ahead of the man who has been waiting for
them to surface. Driven by greed and anger, he intends them
to take his secrets to their graves.
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