Safe Harbor

Where She Ran Publisher's Summary

She ran from the man who promised to love her.

Mara Ellis came to Haven Point with a new name, a hidden past, and one rule: never let anyone get close enough to ask the questions she cannot answer. To the quiet coastal town, she is just another woman trying to start over. But Mara knows better than to believe safety is the same thing as freedom.

Then her husband’s wedding ring appears on her porch.

Daniel Vale has found her.

Sheriff Caleb Rowan knows fear when he sees it. He has lived with his own grief long enough to recognize when someone is carrying a story too heavy to tell. Mara does not want protection. She does not want pity. And she definitely does not want to trust a man with a badge, a wounded heart, and a daughter who sees too much.

But Daniel is not the only danger coming for her.

As Mara’s past crashes into Haven Point, she discovers she is not the only woman who ran. Hidden beneath the town’s charming streets, old lighthouse, and saltwater beauty is a secret network built to move women out of danger. But someone has betrayed it. Names have been sold. Safe houses have been exposed. Women who were supposed to disappear are being found.

And one of them may already be dead.

With danger closing in and Daniel’s threats growing darker, Mara and Caleb must uncover who is feeding women back to the men they escaped before Haven Point becomes another trap.

Emotional, suspenseful, and filled with family secrets, small-town danger, and slow-burn romance, *Where She Ran* is a gripping romantic suspense novel about survival, trust, courage, and the terrifying choice to stop running when love finally gives you somewhere safe to stand.

Book One in the Safe Harbor Series.

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