MEDICAL MYSTERY…OR MURDER? How did five people from a small Georgia town contract a rare, deadly disease? Medical researcher Allison Stewart has to work against the clock to find out. Yet before she can ask one question, someone tries to kill her. A handsome recluse who is shrouded in suspicion saves her. Many believe Luke Garrison is guilty of a decade-old murder—a murder with ties to Allison's case. Allison dares to work closely with Luke. But is she setting herself up to become victim number six? Magnolia Investigating rare diseases puts these medical researchers into harm's—and love's—way

Wealthy heiress Eve Townsend is close to death. But before she dies, she has to what happened to the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-four years before? Did she inherit her mother's life-threatening disease? Medical researcher Pete Worth is ready to find answers by tracking her down. And when he finally locates Meredith Lassiter, he finds her widowed, pregnant and on the run. The smugglers who killed her husband want her dead…and Pete is the only one standing in their way.