Used book – The Shadow Passenger; Dangerous Protection, Rita Herron, Joanna Wayne, B. Dufy, Beckie Leesha

Hardly back in her hometown where her father has just died, Violet Baker thinks she's reliving the nightmare of her childhood. Indeed, like her best friend, Darlene Monroe, murdered twenty years earlier, a woman disappears shortly after her return. Then another one she knew, too. In the insular town, Violet feels a strange threat weighing on her. But what amplifies her distress even more is the palpable hostility of the people she meets. A stranger in her own home, guilty of some unknown crime, Violet refuses to leave the place where she was born and tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her alone. Until unexpected support is offered. Grady Monroe, Darlene's brother, who had carefully avoided her since her return, now seems determined to help her. Relieved, troubled, Violet wonders. For what reason did Grady approach her? Out of a concern for justice and truth? Or in memory of the youthful love that once bound them?