Meggie's Remains

Meggie's Remains is a romantic suspense unlike any other.  Meggie struggles with far more than meeting the man of her dreams.  In fact, she's scared to death when she does.  This story could happen to any woman, in any time.  It is you.  It is me.  It is private ... but must be told. Afraid of men, afraid for her sins, afraid for her sanity, and right now afraid for her life, Meggie McMurphy flees Boston once the fiendish terror—so long stalking in her nightmares—surfaces in the light of day.  She escapes west to Denver in the wild Colorado Territory, hoping to lose herself among the multitude of townsfolk.  The year is 1874. Twenty-five years old, alone, and near penniless, Meggie struggles to find honest work and to keep the dark secrets of her past just that:  a secret.  Not so easily done when the handsome, foreboding westerner Ethan Rourke, stumbles upon her on a snowy Denver street.  Why it's as if he'd stepped right out of the pages of her beloved romance, Jane Eyre!  Safe to encounter such a man on the romance page, it is certainly unsafe, even deadly, for her to encounter such a man in the flesh.  Men belong ... six feet under, six feet away ... where to stay safe, the devil must stay! Hired as a teacher, not in Denver, but in an isolated mountain town in rugged Ute country, Meggie is determined to make a home for herself in Hot Sulphur Springs.  There she keeps up her masquerade as Rose Rochester, yearning for a normal life—for companionship and even love—all the while knowing it's only a matter of time until the monstrous changeling from her nightmares will find her, killing any possibility of a life at all.