Coming Home

On a dark, rainy night I drove my overstuffed junker car back to a town I never expected to see again. And when I needed a rescue by the side of the road, a six-foot-tall piece of hot, unfinished business named Mark was what the universe sent me.

Three years earlier I’d fled town – and Mark – to follow my wrongly convicted father to federal prison, working crappy jobs to stay afloat and visit him every second I could. Now Dad’s dead and I’m mysteriously offered the best job of my life at the college where his life blew up when he was accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Someone wants me here. Desperately. I’m hoping it’s Mark. Because if it’s not, I’m in more danger than I ever imagined. And if it is? Mark may be the most dangerous choice of all.

Everything I know about my life is a lie. The more I dig into my father’s death, the more I find myself in peril. Mark turns out to be a liar, someone I thought I could trust. He’s not what he seems, and worst of all, a part of me can’t let go. My boss might be an international drug lord disguised as a dean at one of the top five universities in the country. Like anyone’s going to believe me if I try to out him. Someone’s decided to keep me quiet. Once – and for all.

You can think you’ve had everything stolen from you. That there’s nothing left to lose. You would be wrong. My best friend’s been kidnapped. I was just captured. What I thought was a massive drug operation turns out to be ten times more horrific. I’m trapped. And Mark has no idea where to find me. Some secrets should remain buried, my captors tell me. And it looks like I will be, too.

The Coming Home series by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine is a three-book romantic suspense trilogy that follows Carrie Myerson back to the college town where her father was framed for a federal crime – and into the arms of the ex-boyfriend she left behind. When a mysterious job offer lures her home, she discovers that the truth behind her father’s death is far more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Drug crimes, kidnappings, betrayals, and an international conspiracy unfold as Carrie and local police officer Mark Paulson untangle a web of deceit buried deep in her past. Nothing is what it seems – including Mark. Featuring a woman-in-peril heroine who refuses to stop digging even when it puts her life at risk, a hero whose secrets run deep, and a second-chance romance tested by lies and mortal danger, the series delivers white-knuckle suspense and emotional intensity. Readers who love romantic thrillers with smart heroines, dangerous secrets, and an ex-lovers-reunited storyline will be hooked from the first rainy night.