by Sandra Brown
First published 2013
Kendall Deaton crawls from her wrecked car with her baby, blood on her hands and terror in her heart. She climbs to the top of a ravine and waves down help, but she cannot tell the authorities who she really is. The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall has discovered a secret that could destroy the town's most powerful people. Her own husband, one of Prosper's elite, has become her greatest threat. Now she runs with her child, knowing that the forces pursuing them will kill to protect their interests. Kendall possesses knowledge that makes her both a valuable witness and a marked woman. Every choice she makes could mean life or death for her son. The people hunting her control the very system she once served, turning her legal expertise into a liability. This is the story of a mother who must outrun corruption itself.
Genres: suspense, crime, action, mystery-thriller, contemporary-romance, legal-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Prosper, South Carolina
441 pages · Kindle Edition · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: abuse, violence