Used book - The Scarlet Season; A Dangerous Confrontation, Laura Gordon, Jean Barret, Pierre Vandeplanque, Carole Pauwels

Synopsis of "The Season Apart": Why is everyone so determined to doubt her word? Cassie witnessed a murder, she's absolutely certain of it! According to the police, however, there's no evidence. And no body has been found... But then, if she dreamed it, how can she explain the threats she's receiving? Overwhelmed by unease, Cassie has no choice but to turn to John Dempsey, her ex-fiancé. The man she was about to marry when he abandoned her... John, whom she never forgave for his betrayal, but who, she knows, is the only one likely to believe her... Synopsis of "A Dangerous Confrontation": Spending another day with Mitch Hawke, an arrogant man who is ice-cold towards her: for Madeline, it's out of the question. Yet, what else can she do? Ever since killers vowed to destroy her and the police placed her under the protection of this professional bodyguard, she has to stay cooped up with him, on his isolated farm deep in Wisconsin... It's not that Mitch is unpleasant to look at, far from it. He's even... extremely unsettling. But he's so elusive! When the killers track her down and almost kill her, Madeline finally resolves to cooperate...