The Second Set of Headlights A Small Town Romantic Thriller
Laurel Sutherland
Synopsis "The Second Set of Headlights A Small Town Romantic Thriller"
She didn't run away. Somebody made sure a whole county believed she did.On May 30, 2008, Josie Lark leaves her graduation bonfire to make curfew and disappears. By dawn, her mother's car sits abandoned on County Road 12, driver's door open, purse untouched. A white sandal lies in the gravel. Her class ring is found thirty feet up the road.Nine days later, the sheriff declares her a runaway.Cutter's Bend, Tennessee, accepts the story and keeps its secrets.Eighteen years later, Sawyer Teague comes home. He was eighteen when Josie vanished and left the bonfire only twenty minutes before she did. Since then, four Army Ranger deployments and eight years as a criminal investigator have taught him how to uncover the truth.But Sawyer isn't home to solve an old mystery. He's come to bury his mother and raise his late brother's son.Then a dying prisoner asks for a priest and for Josie Lark's family. The county sheriff destroys his letter.Seven hundred miles away, a woman living under a dead woman's name hears a Tennessee voice in her home and reaches for the emergency bag hidden beneath her bed.Because Josie Lark survived County Road 12.She stayed gone because when she finally called home eighteen years ago, someone answered the phone who had no business being in her mother's kitchen.Now the past is coming apart piece by piece, exposing buried evidence, powerful lies, and a town that would rather protect its reputation than admit what happened.As Sawyer and Josie are drawn back together, they must confront what was stolen from them and decide whether two people changed by eighteen years of loss can still find their way home to each other.A gripping small-town romantic thriller packed with cold-case evidence, buried secrets, danger, an emotionally intense second-chance romance, and a community determined to protect the truth at any cost.Standalone. No cliffhanger. No cheating. Guaranteed happily-ever-after.Some towns bury a girl.Cutter's Bend buried the truth. Read more
