Ranch Ambush / Lakeside Secrets : Ranch Ambush (Marshals of Mesa Point) / Lakeside Secrets (West Investigations)

Going home means protecting a woman from his past… Fourteen years after the girl Duke Remington loved disappeared, the US marshal comes home to discover that Audrey Newcastle is in mortal danger.

Protecting Audrey, now a sheriff’s deputy, rekindles painful memories and unwelcome desire.

But as secrets from Audrey’s mysterious past surface, Duke must find a way to earn her trust and stop a killer from completing a final act of vengeance… A killer is determined to keep the case cold. Twenty years ago, trauma and injury stole Karine Eloi’s memories of her mother’s murder.

Now she’s back home, teaming up with her best friend, Omar Monroe, to uncover the truth.

But the townspeople refuse to spill their secrets, leaving Karine’s life in danger. And Omar will risk everything to prevent the woman he’s always had feelings for from becoming the victim of another unsolved murder…