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Lieutenant Colonel Lucas Quade is a military officer forced to flee after his wife, whom he had just married, dies under mysterious circumstances. The guilt of abandoning her corpse follows him for years. Five years later, the memories of that trauma and the surrounding secrets propel Quade into a tense search for truth and redemption. Themes of marriage, deception, and the moral costs of survival thread through this tale of haunted duty and the lingering pain of loss.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Catherine Mann
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