Whispering Rock

Mike Valenzuela has left the LAPD after being shot in the line of duty, and has come to Virgin River to recover. Brie Sheridan, Jack's sister, arrives carrying a wound of her own: she prosecuted a serial rapist, lost the case, and was then attacked by him herself.

As the two of them heal, the town's other threads run alongside - the bar, the clinic, the loggers and the teenagers - so that this is as much a novel about Virgin River as a whole as it is about one couple.

Readers should know that sexual assault is discussed throughout the book, not simply referenced once. Third in Robyn Carr's Virgin River series.