Hawk O'Toole's hostage

Miranda Price has just won her divorce from Representative Price, and she expects life to get quieter. Being a politician's wife meant public scrutiny and private misery. Now she plans to take her young son on a vacation out West.

The trip goes wrong on a train crowded with sightseers. Miranda and her son are taken from it by a stranger who gives little away about himself or his reasons. Suddenly she is a hostage, and her child is held with her.

This is romantic suspense, built around a kidnapping and the pull between captive and captor. Miranda is ready to do whatever it takes to protect her son. That includes resisting her own feelings for the man who holds her.

A revelation also waits for her, one that forces her to look again at her past, her choices and the woman she has become. The question driving the book is how far a mother will go to bring her child out safely, and what she will learn about herself on the way.