Fragile Santuary

Twenty-seven-year-old Rhodes returns to her hometown of Sparrow Falls to restore her family's old house and confront a devastating loss from her teenage years. Anson, a gruff former FBI profiler now working as a contractor, becomes her unlikely protector when a series of unsettling, unexplained accidents starts endangering her — pulling him back into instincts from a painful career he'd tried to leave behind.

Catherine Cowles opens the Sparrow Falls series with a small-town romantic suspense pairing two guarded people whose pasts keep surfacing as the danger around Rhodes escalates.