This romance-thriller is the seventh by St. Marys resident Lauren Nichols. Set in fictional Laurel Ridge, PA (an amalgam of St. Mary's and Kane) the book features such familiar Harlequin romance plot devices as the bad boy who makes good, high school sweethearts who reunite, and a killer who stalks the beautiful heroine but, in Nichols's capable hands, it all adds up to something special and with lots of northwestern Pennsylvania locale details to add to the fun.