If someone called you in the middle of lunch and told you to get out of town, would you go? What if that same someone claimed your husband had just been murdered and that you and your stepson were next?Kate Ramsdell's a squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease kinda gal. During the week she's an administrative assistant, one of the best in Tucson, Arizona, but come the weekend Kate takes off her typing gloves and goes...Extreme mountain biking. With her husband and stepson.Until two years ago when Kate found out she had breast cancer. Then she tried to break her neck. Literally. That put an end to the extreme kind of biking. For the moment.Now the cancer's in remission, her neck is healed, and all Kate wants to do is help her stepson plan his wedding. After all – he's going to marry her best friend's daughter. How much fun is that!The fun turns tragic when lunch is interrupted by a phone call from a nutcase in Montana named Jackson Miles, a voice from her husband's computer geek past. Miles insists her husband Dave is dead and that Kate and her stepson are in danger.If she and Travis don't leave town immediately, their lives may be forfeit.Really.If it weren't for the promise Kate made her husband long ago – the promise to take Jackson Miles' advice if and when it were ever offered – Kate would've hung up the phone.Instead, she packs her bags, thinks up a lie to get Travis in the car, and tries to disappear.Only disappearing isn't as easy as Kate expected.When someone tries to blow off her head in a tiny roadside café, she decides they have to follow Miles' directions.But can she really trust a man when she gets shot at the first time he shows his face?Bit by bit, her husband's dark past reveals itself, sending both Kate and Travis on the downhill ride of their lives with twists and turns no one can predict.Not even the enigmatic Jackson Miles.Dodging a mysterious nemesis who seems to know their every move, Kate and Travis hit the road - destination unknown - while Miles ferrets out who killed Dave and why. Kate and Travis bob and weave and double back on their trail and just when the pair think they've finally eluded their pursuer, Miles has to show up like a rotten banana and spoil the fantasy. It seems Travis has been sending covert messages to his love, messages that were intercepted by the people trying to kill them.Now Kate's soon-to-be daughter-in-law is heading into the jaws of a deadly trap. A trap only she and Travis can stop from springing. Living off the grid in the middle of the Lost Sierras has given the Swann family a different perspective on life. This often-challenging lifestyle has spawned an assortment of oddities, including the husband and wife writing team known as J.L. Swann. Jim is a civil engineer and computer enthusiast. Louisa is a professional writer whose short stories have appeared in both Pocketbook and DAW anthologies.
