by Marliss Melton.
Warner paperback, 271 pages. 2006.
Contemporary. Virginia/Oklahoma.
Chase (Westy, to his fellow SEALs) McCaffrey, needs no one and chooses to lead an isolated life as he believes that helps him be the good sniper he is for the SEALs. He’s taking a time-out from his duties to return to his childhood home in Oklahoma. His family has all died and now his hated step-father is dead. He has to get the ranch in shape for selling.
But, before leaving, he runs into Sara Garrett who desperately asks him for help in getting away from her abusive husband with her son. Chase had helped her a few times in the past for small things and she knows he is leaving at the same time she plans to escape. He helps her and then persuades them to stay for a while at his ranch rather than travel on to her mother’s place immediately. He wants to fix the old pick-up truck at the ranch for her so she can have a better mode of transportation. She doesn’t expect her husband to find where she’s gone as she never told him about recently locating her real mother. They have been communicating over the e-mail at her office.
Chase never did like her husband - the prosecuting attorney from JAG who was so cold and heartless thru the trial of his good friend and fellow SEAL, Lt. Renault. So, that is all the more reason to help this woman.
At the ranch they discover skinheads have been there and have weapons stored inside. His step-father was a part of the group. Now they have another reason to be cautious and careful.
Another terrific novel in the series by Melton. She just gets better and better all the time. I loved it! There’s so much happening and so much to absorb that you can hardly turn the pages fast enough. Really great reading.