Malone Brothers (Cole)

KC Malone is on a four-week leave from the navy when he arrives at his uncle's beach house to find a beautiful woman pointing a gun at his chest. What the hell has he just walked in on? Moriah Jensen is on the run from dirty cops and ruthless drug dealers. Fleeing Chicago after her family was murdered, she spends the next four months trying to stay alive. Using an alias, she bounces from town to town, state to state, struggling to stay steps ahead of the people chasing her. As the two become reluctant temporary housemates, KC offers to train Moriah to defend herself against an alleged abusive ex-boyfriend. But when her past catches up with her, Moriah has to decide between her love for KC and running for safety. To stay would risk both their lives. To run would mean leaving her heart behind.

FBI agent Sean Malone's homecoming is interrupted by two things - a pleasant surprise from his youth and a deranged serial killer. The little tomboy who'd followed him and his brothers around is now grown up and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he'd never done before. Whisper, North Carolina, where she'd spent her childhood summers, is the perfect place for Grace Whitman to open her new business - especially when she finds her adolescent crush has returned as well. As the two get to know each other all over again, local law enforcement asks Sean to help find the man who has tortured and killed three women. Will the killer follow his pattern and move on, or has Dare County become his permanent hunting ground?