A fresh start. An old love returned. A frozen body that threatens to shatter it all.
When Katie Connell trades her legal career for an island life in St. Marcos, she finally believes she's found peace. She has a devoted restaurateur boyfriend, a musical partnership with her best friend, a hard-won commitment to sobriety—and a rainforest home that came with an unexpected bonus: a centuries-old house ghost who may have saved her life.
But paradise has a way of unraveling.
When a man from Katie's past appears at her door, a shocking murder in her boyfriend's restaurant sends her fragile new world into chaos. Add a vulnerable child in need of protection, and Katie is pulled back into the kind of moral and emotional crossroads she thought she'd left behind forever.
Forced to choose between the mystical home that healed her and the man who might be the love of her life, Katie must confront the ghosts—both real and metaphorical—of her past. One wrong move could cost her everything she's fought to rebuild... including her sobriety.
Leaving Annalise is the second standalone novel in the Katie Connell trilogy and part of the addictive What Doesn't Kill You romantic mystery super series.
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Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." If you enjoy the emotional depth of Sandra Brown and the wit of Janet Evanovich, you'll love USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney and longtime resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pamela swears she did not take notes while living there.
Buy Leaving Annalise today and escape to an island mystery where love, danger, and second chances collide.