![]() ![]() ![]() She hopes to send Heather home for the year, and to use the time to dissuade David from his foolish choice, especially since his mother has already handpicked his potential bride from a neighboring plantation. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning. With her maid as chaperone, they board the train heading South. Heather wants to make the trip with him, especially since his father’s death seems imminent. When he receives word that his father is ailing, David wants her to accompany him home to Savannah to meet his family. ![]() In 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave - the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.ĭespite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues when David dances with Heather at the Cotillion Ball and later that night, walks her home. ![]()
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Jordan is an ex FBI profiler and now police chief in the town she grew up in.a town where she was the victim of a heinous crime as a little girl.She had followed cases of this type for many years and feels the killer has resurfaced.she was lucky enough to have escaped.and has been haunted her whole life by this event.well this guy has gone serial and she is determined to stop him.Her estranged husband comes to help her and they slowly rekindle there marriage and when he learns what had happened to Jordan.he is also determined to catch this killer with her.well there are many twists and turns and I was guessing the whole time till it was revealed who the bad guy was.and I loved it!!! 2 thumbs up! I wouldn't mind more of Jordan and Sam.they make a good team!! Thank You Audiobookblast(dot)com Man parts.but especially how Judd saves Jordan in the end again.I was like YES!!!!!!!!!!!! ![]() Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? She nailed it!!! really great narration! 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