A woman hunting for her past, and a dangerous man hunting her

    Electrifying novel about one woman's desperate quest for freedom

    The court has appointed one of the state's most successful criminal lawyers to represent him. Rob should feel fortunate.Ambitious and arrogant, defense attorney Dan Smathers will do whatever it takes to protect his own interests, even if it means sentencing an unsuspecting Rob to prison-or even death. But he hasn't taken into account the unwavering loyalty of Rob's best friend, Raul, or the personal integrity of Haley Gordon, the rising-star prosecutor assigned to the case.

    But is she hiding from more than an outside world she finds painful and unforgiving? David Rogers thinks so. As a new semester begins at Alma Elementary, Captain Rogers, a dashing young naval officer and former astronaut, arrives to teach sixth grade, courtesy of a government grant to impoverished school districts. At least that’s his story. He’s actually been sent undercover to find out all he can about the woman who calls herself Libby James, but is in reality Elisabeth Jamison, one of the richest women in the world…and a suspected spy. David quickly learns that while Libby probably isn’t selling classified defense information to Middle Eastern terrorists, she probably is next on the list of whoever’s guilty—and is systematically eliminating the people who get in their way.

    In 1858, to earn money to join her married sisters in Utah and to escape an unscrupulous guardian, twenty-one-year-old Tamsin flees her Massachusetts town and becomes housekeeper for a mysterious bachelor.

    And that's why God created sisters, or so the story begins of the first woman's need for companionship beyond the roles of wife and mother.A Sister celebrates the profound blessing of sisters everywhere, on everyone. The seventh tale in the "A Fable for Our Times" series, A Sister will inspire you to reflect on your own sisterhoods--whether among family members, or with the sisters you've met throughout your life--and celebrate them everyday.

    

    Besides being uplifting and inspirational, these unusual stories are sprinkled with humor. Read about: a funeral for a person's body part a crop planted too late that turned out to be just in time an unusual cure for a baby's vivid red birthmark creative spiders and snakes, and some geese that lost their feathers About the Author: Shirley Bahlmann lives in Manti, Utah. She is also the author of the best-selling book Against All Odds.