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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Divorced from a verbally abusive man, Mary Hanson goes on her first date in years, with a man she met through a dating service. A lovely evening culminates with a toe-curling kiss that fills her with hope... Until the middle of the night when a rapist breaks into her apartment-a masked man who smells like her date's aftershave and knows things she has only told him. Frantic, she flees to the home of her friends, James and his girlfriend Carrie. But no place-not even James's secluded house in the backwoods of Virginia-is truly safe, as Mary's rapist turns out to be a stalker, intent on possessing her, no matter what it takes. And James has neglected to tell her that his house is also occupied by the ghost of their mutual friend, who was murdered there. While trying to identify the rapist, James struggles with his own legacy from their friend's murder...has he become an overprotective and controlling jerk? And as the rapist escalates, James is forced to face another horror. Has he put Carrie and her teenage boy-whom he's begun to think of as a son-in danger as well?

It's hard to let go of the past when it won't let go of you... Taking it slow is no longer an option for James Fitzgerald and his new love when Carrie's teenaged son appears at her door, leading her abusive estranged husband right to her. But the batterer brings more baggage to the Virginia woods than just his rage at the wife who ran away. An already complicated custody battle devolves into a struggle for hidden stakes, and the challenges thrown at the couple threaten to tear them apart and destroy Carrie's hopes for a normal, happy life. (This is Book 2 in the Unintended Consequences series. James and Carrie's relationship begins in Payback, Book 1.)

One autumn afternoon changed everything! With strange fainting spells rattling James Fitzgerald's sense of identity and complicating his acting career, he is looking forward to a relaxing getaway with friends. Instead he walks into a bloodbath, and a cryptic message on a shower curtain points to him as the killer. Carrie Johnson has hidden herself away in the northern Virginia's woods to escape an abusive husband. But her attempts to stay isolated from society are confounded by her attraction to her only neighbor, part-time resident James Fitzgerald. Virtually under house arrest and struggling to resist his growing attraction to Carrie, James distracts himself by investigating his parents' backgrounds, seeking an explanation for the fainting spells. Instead, he discovers some shocking truths about his family and himself, and ends up wondering if he should have let sleeping ghosts lie. (This story was previously published as Ripples of Evil)