Safe Harbor

Mara Ellis came to Haven Point with a new name, a hidden past, and one rule: never let anyone get close enough to ask the questions she cannot answer. To the quiet coastal town, she is just another woman trying to start over. But Mara knows better than to believe safety is the same thing as freedom. Then her husband’s wedding ring appears on her porch. Daniel Vale has found her.

She survived by hiding. Now the truth is forcing her back into the house that stole everything. Three weeks after Daniel Vale’s arrest, Haven Point is trying to breathe again. Mara Ellis is learning how to live without checking every shadow.

What if the place built to hide women was not the only secret waiting in the dark? Elise Hart has survived locked rooms, false names, and people who turned rescue into a weapon. She knows how to disappear, how to lie when the truth is dangerous, and how to read fear before anyone says a word. But she does not know who she really is. After the fall of Harbor House, Haven Point should finally be safe. Vivian Crowe is in custody. Daniel Vale is behind bars. Safe Harbor’s network of donors, judges, doctors, and stolen women is beginning to collapse. Then Elise vanishes.

Evelyn Cross has spent thirty years helping women disappear. Behind the doors of Crosswind Inn in Haven Point, she has hidden frightened wives, wounded mothers, stolen daughters, and women running from powerful men. To the town, Evelyn is guarded and mysterious. To the women she saved, she is the reason they survived. But Evelyn has never told the truth about why she started. Thirty years ago, Ruth Vale came to Evelyn’s door during a hurricane, barefoot, bleeding, and carrying secrets that could expose some of Haven Point’s most powerful families. Evelyn tried to save her.