Taken Away

<p><em>She disappeared without a trace... love found him when he needed it most.</em></p><p></p><p>Dr. Jessee Bradford has the perfect life: a beautiful wife a daughter he adores a home above the Santa Barbara coast. Then he comes home one ordinary afternoon to find them both gone-no struggle no ransom note nothing but silence and an empty crib.</p><p></p><p>For years Jessee doesn't know if his family was stolen from him or if his wife simply chose to disappear. The not-knowing nearly destroys him. He rebuilds his life on his grandparents' Iowa farm throws himself into his veterinary practice and tells himself he's moved on.</p><p></p><p>Then he meets Laura Driscoll: a strong warm-hearted widow who never expected to fall in love again either. What starts as friendship becomes something neither of them can deny-until the past she buried and the past he never solved collide in ways that threaten everything they've built together.</p><p></p><p>Some secrets stay hidden for years. Love isn't always one of them. But sometimes it takes losing everything twice to know exactly what-and who-is worth fighting for.</p>