Hunted

Olman County - Book Two

Beth Hudson has spent years trading barbs with Ethan Moore, and every one of them is cover. She's loved him since she was old enough to know the difference, and she'd rather lose the argument than let him find that out. He's her brother's best friend, the surly detective who looks at her like she's a party girl playing at journalism, and the last man on earth she'd hand that kind of ammunition to.

Ethan has spent the last two years keeping a careful distance—ever since the day Beth stopped being "just" Chase Hudson's little sister and became something he couldn't look away from. He knows exactly what she is—smart, stubborn, out of his league—and he knows what happens if he stops pretending otherwise.

Then someone starts leaving things for Beth. Flowers she didn't ask for. Photographs she didn't pose for. Pieces of her own life, returned to her ruined. Ethan ends up parked outside her door because there's no one else to do it, and the distance he's held for two years doesn't survive the week.

But the story Beth is chasing—the altars burned into the fields, the people quietly going missing on moonless nights—isn't running alongside her own. It's the same story. And by the time she understands what's been done to make no one believe her, the hunt has already closed around her.

Some things break in ways that can't be fought off. They can only be survived, and then carried.

Hunted is the second book in the Olman County Series, women's fiction novels of small-town romantic suspense.