A deadly betrayal taught her to guard her heart at all costs.
IT expert Maddy Krause has always felt like an outsider, never fitting in anywhere. When she finally let her guard down and opened her heart to a man, it almost cost her life. Now she’s starting over and building a new life on Skeleton Island. The last thing she expected was to meet a man who makes her want more and to trust again. Then a ghost from her past resurfaces, and surviving what happens next will test the fragile foundations they’ve started to build.
But one man tempts her to risk it all again.
Former Coast Guard rescue swimmer Lachlan McCaffrey carries emotional scars of his own, but Maddy brings out all his protective instincts. It’s clear she’s been hurt before and he’s determined to win her trust and heart. But just as she starts to let her walls down, danger closes in. Someone connected to her past is bent on exacting revenge, putting them both in a killer’s crosshairs.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylea Cross writes edge-of-your-seat military romantic suspense. Her work has won many awards, including the Daphne du Maurier, HOLT Medallion, and the National Readers Choice Awards. A former Registered Massage Therapist, Kaylea holds a BA in anthropology and history from UBC, and a MSc in Human Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology from Durham University. She’s also an avid gardener, artist, baker, osteology geek, novice rower, history buff, humpback whale enthusiast, and former nationally-carded softball pitcher. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her husband and rescue pets.
Maddy’s IT skills are unparalleled, but she is still dealing with the emotional aftereffects of what she endured in Syria. She is now staying in Skeleton Bay while she is close to some old friends and makes a new friend in Lachlan. Just when she begins to feel that she is ready to move forward from the past she begins to wonder if the danger is far from over.
Lachlan is a former rescue swimmer who now runs a charter business in Skeleton Bay. He has a emotionally turbulent past of his own that continues to weigh heavily on him. When he meets Maddy he is drawn to her and understands her in a way that most people don’t and when she finds herself in danger he isn’t about to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The action keeps coming, the suspense keeps you on edge and the surprises keep coming as Maddy and Lachlan take us on an adventure that includes both romance and emotion.
