Running from Strangers (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Expressions)

Allie Hudson, a child advocate, runs away with Davy Lopez, the son of a prostitute mother and a drug-addict father, to her ex-lover's house in the mountains of Colorado after a judge orders for Davy's return to his parents.

Allie Hudson is trying to do something right, so why is it turning out so wrong? When she was younger, Beck Williams—the love of her life—was there to help, but there is no one to help now that she is on the run with young Davy Lopez. A child advocate, she is appalled when the judge decides to return Davy to his prostitute mother and drug-addict father, so she takes Davy to her summer home in rural Michigan. When they are attacked, she runs to Beck after all. A naturalist living among the wild mustangs in the Colorado mountains, he is overjoyed to see Allie and wants to resume their old relationship, but she has lost her ability to trust after her deceased policeman husband proved to be crooked. Still dealing with the repercussions from speaking out against his corrupt department, she isn’t sure if the assailants want her or Davy. Harrison’s intense novel of romantic suspense is filled with enough surprises to keep the reader entertained and guessing to the end. --Patty Engelmann