A Whisper in the Pines

"Humans, Miss Campbell, are not limited nor defined by the circumstances they were born into. We all have the gift of self-improvement - and that is perhaps the most powerful gift of all."

Maeve Campell just wants to go home and sleep. She's sick of people, her career as a guitarist is painfully stagnant, and the drunks don't seem to give a damn how well she performs. What she needs is for something to change. Of course, getting kidnapped tends to do just that, especially when your captors are from a different world where supernatural abilities are the norm.

Adrian Whitlock wants order. There's a killer amongst his small, isolated town of Tenebrese, and the vitims are only growing. The poeple are panicking, and soon he will take his father's place as Mayor, then they will all look to him alone. But when an ordinary woman stumbles across them, he has to choose between killing her and taking her prisoner - which puts his investigations on the backburner. Though as he begins to recognise her from another time, then comes the possibility that everything happening right now has everything to do with her.

This book may have some triggering themes (grief, s/h, addiction, violence, trauma), but is in essence a story about overcoming and making the best of circumstances out of our control, even when we are traumatised, vastly overpowered, and outnumbered.