Used book – Under My Protection - Dangerous Proximity, Julie Miller, Beverly Long

Under My Protection by Beverly Long: Why did he come to bury himself in this backwater? Jake keeps asking himself this question as he discovers Wyattville, the small village nestled in the heart of Minnesota where he arrived the day before to replace the sheriff. As soon as his mission is over, he'll leave. At least, that's what he's convinced of, until he meets Joanna Travis, who runs the town's only restaurant. Because, despite his desire to leave town as quickly as possible, this gentle, beautiful, and extremely discreet woman manages to intrigue him. As if he could read in her large, anxious eyes that she was afraid of something. Or someone. And that she needed him to protect her. Dangerous Proximity by Julie Miller: A letter. The third she's received in just a few days. Commissioner Shauna Cartwright is distraught: could it be, as the anonymous author of the letters claims, that she made a mistake two years earlier, and that she had an innocent man imprisoned in the sordid murder case she was investigating at the time? Determined to get to the bottom of it, she asks Eli Masterson to help her reopen the case. Asking this outstanding cop doesn't displease her, she has to admit. But she'll have to keep her cool: Masterson is extremely unsettling; and yet, nothing is possible between them.