The Witness and the Marshal. A tense, slow-burning protective romantic suspense about a deadly witness, a twin's secret, a forced-proximity safe house, a hunted heroine, and a love worth surviving for

Eight seconds on a ton of muscle and rage, and Lena Calder could pay the bills. Eight seconds on a bull named Thunder, and she'd have enough cash to disappear again. She rode under a ghost name, took the envelope, folded the money flat into her boot. Then she turned to count the exits. That's when she saw the ruby ring the color of dried blood. Lena has been running since the night her sister clawed at her face and screamed run, Lena, run. She has the scar to prove it. A thin white line across her jaw that pulls tight whenever Silas Vermillion's people get close. She is the only living witness to what Vermillion did. And witnesses don't get to grow old. She has spent years as a ghost - riding rodeos under borrowed names, paying cash, counting exits in every room she enters. She trusts no one.
She stays nowhere. She runs. Then a U. S. Marshal locks her down in a crumbling safe house deep in the Louisiana swamp. Moss-draped oaks. One lit window. Nowhere left to run. He is all set jaw and steady hands and a promise she doesn't believe. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you, " he tells her. She's heard promises before. The last one got her sister killed. But the swamp keeps secrets, and so does she - a twin's secret that could blow the case wide open and put a target on the one man trying to keep her breathing. The blood she couldn't stop won't wash off. The cabin in the swamp is the first place she's wanted to stop running. As the walls close in and the testimony comes due, Lena has to decide whether to keep running forever or finally stop, stand, and trust the one person she swore she never would. The Witness and the Marshal is a tense, slow-burning protective romantic suspense about a deadly witness, a twin's secret, a forced-proximity safe house, a hunted heroine, and a love worth surviving for. Perfect for readers who love romantic suspense, protective heroes, witness-on-the-run thrillers, forced proximity, and slow-burn danger.
A standalone romance with a happy ending worth fighting for.