A female rock star quits show business and hides from a deranged stalker at a lake house only to find new danger in the form of mysterious neighbors who move in to the abandoned house across the bay.

SYNOPSIS:

Adapted from the writer's #1 Amazon Suspense Bestseller

After a stalker's attack, International rock star, Goldy, shockingly quits show business and leaves L.A. for her secluded lake house in Northern Washington where she hopes to avoid both the media and a psychotic fan.

But obscurity leaves her restless, and when a mysterious--and disturbingly handsome--new neighbor moves in, she starts spying. Pete Bayer is undeniably attractive, but Goldy, whose name is really Nikki, quickly realizes there's something strange going on in the log house across the bay, beyond her suspicion he might be the press. Despite this, Nikki can't deny her fascination with Pete until she sees a hidden wife and son. Her suspicions turn to fear when she believes Pete is planning to kill his wife. She offers an escape route to a shelter or help from the FBI who are monitoring the threatening letters she receives with death threats from a stalker code named Shakespeare, but help is not taken.

Nikki has to decide between putting herself in danger or playing it safe because she's three months pregnant with a baby whose father she only knew for one night after her divorce from Burn, the band's guitar player. Her seventeen-year-old daughter from Burn, Quinn, is away at college, trying to live a normal life after years in her mother's spotlight and a subsequent addiction problem. Nikki wants desperately to offer a normal life to the new baby and finally be a good mother, the mother Quinn never had.

But she can't stop spying on the Bayer family next door. Pete's wife and child are timid, skittish and hiding something dark. Pete has a gun and his wife appears afraid of him. The local police tell Nikki to stop spying.

When the press discovers Nikki's hideout, it's Pete who offers an escape route away from the lake, but it comes with a price. Stay with them a week and not tell anyone where she is. Unwillingly drawn into his dangerous world, Nikki soon learns the reason behind Pete's secrecy. Pete is a Federal Marshal protecting a witness and her son who are waiting to testify in the murder of her husband, an accountant for the mob. After testifying, the woman and child will fade into the witness relocation program. Pete is not married.

A dead of night escape has the Bayer family and Nikki ending up on Pete's sailboat on the west coast. Nikki is hidden from the press and the Bayers are safe in obscurity. The strange foursome spend a week in close quarters until the Bayers are called to Seattle to testify. By then, Nikki and Pete have professed their feelings for each other, Pete fully aware she's pregnant. In Seattle, the courthouse is swamped with press and hoping to make it safe for the Bayers to get inside, Nikki provides a distraction by jumping out of the van. Mistaken for the female witness by a mob shooter, Nikki is shot as Pete ushers his charges into the courthouse.

Nikki is rushed to the hospital but her stalker looms, now having found her through the press coverage of the mistaken identity shooting. When the stalker's final plan is put into place and a drugged Nikki is taken from the hospital, it's Pete who comes to Nikki's rescue. At risk to his own life, he helps capture the abductor who is Nikki's personal assistant. Nikki discovers that the assistant had a daughter, a runaway obsessed with Goldy, and when she eventually killed herself at a Goldy concert, the assistant promised revenge. All this time, Pete is prevented in seeing Nikki by Quinn who thinks it was his fault her mother got shot, but Pete is frantic to see Nikki, to know the woman he loves hasn't lost the baby and forgives him for not protecting her at the courthouse.

At a press conference, Nikki asks the world to let her disappear into obscurity and when Pete shows up to ask a question, they reunite, vowing to make a life together, away from show business.

*** Adapted from a #1 Amazon Bestselling Romantic Suspense by the author, USA Today Bestselling Author, Kim Hornsby.