They’re long-time friends, but could their relationship end in a bloody mystery? As a computer guru, Jenna White is offered a lucrative position at a new firm in California. On the day she leaves Arizona, her best friend makes a move that has Jenna questioning her feelings and her future. Former soldier Heath Fairchild, now security expert, can’t forget that special and unexpected moment on the day his closest friend relocates. But when he visits Jenna, he finds her apartment door open and her cat hiding under the bed. As Heath searches for Jenna, time counts down on an illegal auction. Can Jenna find a way to get a message to Heath? With the team at West Coast Security hitting dead ends, will the clues help them in a rescue or have them arriving too late?

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Present day
… “Going to California”—with aching in my heart—was playing through Jenna’s mind. The apartment was a jumble of boxes, stacks of folded newspaper—what she’d always used for cheap and available packing material—with the remnants of numerous rolls of p...













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Present day
… “Going to California”—with aching in my heart—was playing through Jenna’s mind. The apartment was a jumble of boxes, stacks of folded newspaper—what she’d always used for cheap and available packing material—with the remnants of numerous rolls of p...

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