Winter's Hope: An Inspirational Mystery Romance
Barbara Bressler McKee

On the second anniversary of her husband's death, the reclusive, depressed artist and widow, forty-five-year-old Hope Murray, finds herself on the run after a fateful encounter with a nasty neighbor. Believing she'd unintentionally killed the man in self-defense and being terrified of the consequences, she flees town, assuming a new identity, and seeking refuge nearly 1,700 miles away in the company of her pen pal and confidant for the past thirty years, Pastor Jared Winter. After meeting his handsome and charming so-called "friend" of questionable character, Gordie Emerson, she turns to him for help despite Jared's warnings. But her misplaced trust only takes her down a potentially dangerous path of deception, leading to destruction. Amid choices, insecurity, fear, pain from her past, and all the whys and what-ifs, will Hope finally discover the truth, her inner strength, a renewed faith, and the possibility of loving again?