Breaking News: A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Wanted for a murder she didn’t commit.
A drug lord wants her dead.
Paula James must disappear.
Who can she trust?
Investigative journalist Paula James has been on leave to nurse her dying mother. She tries to convince her father to leave the small farm house which has become a trap after her mother’s death. Strange cars come and go in the night. The wind sometimes carries a too-familiar chemical odor.
A sudden fire consumes the house and her father is killed. A great evil has come to the wooded hills and valleys of the Ozark Mountains.
Paula flees to reunite with Emmy-Award-winning journalist, David van Pelt, for whom she has a well-concealed passion. They are determined to discover who and what has turned a peaceful backwoods region into a place where murders happen, and the local sheriff isn’t interested in solving them.
Together they struggle to elude a criminal whose influence spans the globe. Following leads to Seattle, Las Vegas, LA’s Chinatown, Chicago, and Arkansas, they find that find everyone seems to know more than they do. But no one understands the whole story, and soon David and Paula are in the crosshairs of a killer. As they are forced off the grid to dig through countless layers of misdirection, the two journalists fight the fierce attraction between them.
When they finally discover the truth, it is far different than anything they could have imagined.