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A Fight For Shelter

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Parts 7
Time 1h 18m

The one man she can't trust is the only one who can keep her safe.

Tortured Special Agent Finn Cort returns to his coastal hometown of St. Michaels, Maryland-to find his high school sweetheart occupying his farmhouse. But any hope of reconciling is wiped out by a serial killer, bringing Finn's shallowly buried skeletons to the surface.

Delila Spencer copes with her horrific, abusive past by sheltering battered women. But an obsessed killer is plotting to spill her haunting secrets-using abused women as his targets. 

Their future depends on trust-but will exposing their secrets cost them love?All Rights Reserved

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