John Davis is a man on a mission, and he doesn’t have the time to go chasing after some misguided female, no matter how much he’s attracted to her, which suits Bethany just fine. She has her own plans. But with a killer close on her trail, she’s forced to run hard and fast. Can John find her before the bounty hunter who was paid to see her dead? John Davis has a problem. He's tracked two killers from Boston to the Barbary Coast of the young and glittering-in-gold town of San Francisco, but now he can’t find them. He doesn’t have time to get tangled-up with a woman full of secrets, like Bethany Mason. No matter how attracted he is to her. Bethany has her own problems. Her father died and her very controlling, half-brother Lewis is acting oddly. So oddly she's forced to run for her life. And abandon her growing feelings for John. Too late to stop her, John gives chase. But in between them is a killer, and he has Bethany in his sight down the barrel of a rifle. Bethany is brave and smart, but out of her element on the unmarked trail to the mountains, and no match for a murderous bounty hunter. To have any chance of reaching her in time, John desperately needs help from her very different but fiercely loyal circle of friends. Set in 1851 San Francisco, Believing in Love is the second book in the Circle of Friends Series. Come meet Bethany and John, and all the unusual, bold and engaging people around them, who band together and form an unbreakable Circle of Friends. Believing in Love is part of a series that includes recurring characters, but can be read as a stand-alone book. It contains romance, suspense and action as well as some spice and heat.