2014 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Romance Suspense Winner 2013 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award-Best Book Suspense Second Round Romance Contender-2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards A woman who's afraid to trust. Successful designer, Penny Wentworth has arrived from New York to take charge of the wedding flowers for the new owners of the Dragonfly Pointe Inn. As a single parent of a severely autistic and mentally impaired son, she has no romantic illusions; her experience with an abusive husband has left her wary of relationships. A man who's afraid to love. Haunted by his past since discovering a six-year old girl brutally murdered at Dragonfly Pointe over twenty-two years before, Sam had intentionally avoided returning home. But after resigning from his job as a homicide detective in New Orleans when his marriage fell apart, Sam is now the chief of police in Crystal Rock, Wisconsin. An undying passion that's endured throughout the years . Penny's escort for the wedding, Sam had once been the object of every single one of her teenage fantasies. Despite his overwhelming attraction to Penny as a teenager, Sam had deliberately kept his distance because of their age difference. But from the moment Sam meets Penny again, he realizes she's always been the only woman for him. And when Sam and Penny spend the entire weekend of the wedding together, their sizzling attraction turns explosive. But unaware that his divorce was never legally finalized, Sam has no idea that Vanessa Gerard Danielson is on her way to Crystal Rock attempting for reconciliation. And now there's a killer in their midst . Sam is stunned when Vanessa's body is pulled out from the Crystal Rock River. Indian legend claims Dragonfly Pointe has a mysterious power to ensure new beginnings. When Sam's search for a killer, astonishingly, leads him back through his own tarnished past, will a woman who's afraid to trust be able to forgive a man who considers himself undeserving of her love?