Home Away From Home

Chloe Barbour has reached the mountains. And she is still alive.Home is filled with a seesaw of emotions as a young professional twists in the winds of chance. Her well-laid plans and the dreams for her life have all crumbled when she discovers a discrepancy in her companys financial records. When the justice system doesnt protect her fleeing for her life is her only option.Hiding becomes a way of life for the woman in her mid-twenties. She feels completely alone as she travels across multiple states seeking a safe place to begin a new life.Clunker cars cheap motels and frequent fearful glances in rearview mirrors become her new normal. Underneath the ever-present fear and constant loneliness is Chloes belief that she has been thrust into a spiraling funnel from which there is no escape. At her lowest point she discovers Brewster a small mountain town that may provide a respite from her danger-ridden past.But strange folded notes threatening phone calls shadows near the woods and unwanted visitors threaten the fragile peace of a new place. However an emerging group of potential friends and a new job with a local contractor give Chloe hope that possibly just possibly someone does care about her. Readers will travel back roads and through small communities with Chloe as she leaves a carefully planned city life and moves from fear to trust panic to calmness loneliness to friendship the past to the future and confusion to inner peace.