Desperate

A powerful, well-respected attorney manipulates a small town into believing the wife he tortures causes her own injuries. One dark and brutal year later, he murders her father and claims it was her during one of her violent rages. Having nothing left to lose, or protect, she escapes and finds refuge with a local cop whose secret threatens to destroy her delicate trust in him. Without him, though, she has no chance of survival. The longer she stays hidden, the more secrets are revealed, and the more determined and dangerous her husband becomes. Will the truth and a cop be enough to protect her? Or will her husband’s reckless desperation prove the end for them all? Previous version published under pen name Christine Wilkinson.