Lee Danforth Suspense

Charleston real estate lawyer Lee Danforth thought she'd left Timberline Farm-and everything that happened there-far behind. But when a young girl escapes the ranch and comes to her with chilling evidence of abuse, Lee is pulled back into a world she's spent years trying to forget-a place once trusted to protect, now hiding something far more sinister. Haunted by her past with Jack Marshall, Timberline's late founder, Lee is forced to reexamine a relationship she once believed was love-but now knows was abuse and exploitation. As she digs deeper, the truth becomes more harrowing: Jack's surviving family has turned the farm into a front for trafficking and corruption. And Jack's death? Maybe not an accident after all. Exposing the truth means revisiting the darkest chapter of her life and risking everything she's built-her career, her reputation, even her safety. But staying silent could mean more children vanish, and more lives are destroyed. As powerful forces close in and the shadows of Timberline grow darker, Lee must decide: protect herself-or bring a monstrous legacy into the light.

After a disastrous fourth tour overseas, Army Colonel Vernon Matheson is thrust into civilian life with a forced medical retirement and a fractured mind. Hoping to rebuild, he returns to Charleston-only to walk into a nightmare: his house trashed, a dead woman on his bedroom floor, and his wife and five-year-old daughter gone without a trace. Instead of allies, Vern finds resistance at every turn. His once-steady grandparents are evasive and erratic, the lead investigator seems determined to frame him, and time is bleeding away with every false lead. Into the chaos steps Lee Danforth-a sharp, relentless attorney assigned to his case, and the last person Vern wants digging through his shattered life. But as their alliance deepens, so does the danger. As Lee Danforth and Vern Matheson dig deeper into Angela Matheson's double life and trail of drugs, secrets, and betrayal, they uncover something far darker: a calculating killer who has been stalking this family for months, orchestrating every piece of their destruction. With a hurricane bearing down on the South Carolina coast, Vern and Lee must race to find his daughter, Katie, before the storm-and the man hunting them-brings everything crashing down. Because the deeper they dig, the deadlier the truth becomes.