Midnight Exposure

Two hikers vanish from a small town in Maine, and the locals put it down to the blinding storms. The real cause is something far worse.

Jayne Sullivan, a tabloid photographer, gets an anonymous tip that leads her to the town. She expects to find the most reclusive sculptor in the art world. What she finds instead is Reed Kimball, a handyman with a closed-off manner, and a community that keeps deadly secrets.

Five years earlier, Reed gave up his career as a homicide detective and buried his wife. He wants to stay out of sight and away from reporters. Then one of the missing hikers turns up dead, and the police chief asks for his help. A Celtic coin lies under the body, and nobody can say why. The second hiker is still missing.

Reed has no wish for a murder case, a missing person or a photographer asking questions. That changes when Jayne is attacked and he sees how much nerve she has. To keep her safe, he has to stake everything while hunting a killer who stays one step ahead.

This is romantic suspense, with a murder investigation and a slow-forming bond between two wary people.