Author Description

More than thirty years have passed since Jessie Butler last laid eyes on Clayton Matthews. Their teenage romance was torn apart by an event that shattered her world--something she could not forgive Clayton for at the time, until now. Even through a twenty-two year loveless marriage to Wilson Barfield, and a four-year uneventful relationship with Jace Edwards, Jessie's heart yearned to see Clayton again. She and her trusty horse, McCall, head off to Cry Baby Mountain in search of the old abandoned cabin where she and Clayton used to spend hours in each other's arms, only to encounter a brutal attack by an unknown assailant. While searching for the truth of who would want to do her harm, she discovers that Clayton is dead. But is he really, or is someone trying to keep her from finding him? She sets out on a long journey that takes her from the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina to Kentucky, and then to Shakespeare Ghost Town near Deming, New Mexico, where more danger awaits her. Will she find Clayton? Is the man known as Luke Johnson really her Clayton? What does the FBI want with her? Whose body is found in her barn, and what does that have to do with Clayton's whereabouts? Find out as you follow Jessie on her quest to make sense out of her life as she sets out on a dangerous journey to find Clayton, the only man she ever loved.