Book excerpt: Attorney Chase Mason suspected Maris Montague wasn’t who she claimed to be, he sensed it, the moment he hired her. She was a mystery, intriguing. Digging into her past raised troubling questions. For one thing he real name was Lilly Conrad and she dodged his prying questions expertly. Lilly must face the fight of her life, and she needed an alley. She slowly revealed the dark twisted secrets of her past. Then the Bounty Hungers found her. She fled with her son Oliver, and feared that she had she lost Oliver’s only hope. Chase faced the biggest trial of his life, alone. She had fled, and in his mind she wasn’t just a client he defended. They were the family he longed to have. To Lilly, he was a tender love that she hadn’t know existed but she couldn’t risk going back. Time had run out on the trial, and love