She's moved forward, but has she really moved ahead? Social worker Sienna St. James is no stranger to setbacks. As far as she is concerned, her estranged husband set her back and off course over a decade ago. Now, she has reclaimed her sense of hope and purpose, set up a new therapy practice, bought a new home, and has finally moved on. Maybe. When a wealthy, secretive new couple shes counseling pulls her into their very real life-and-death drama, and her long-lost husbands whereabouts can no longer be ignored, Sienna realizes the truth about what has kept her emotionally frozen and fragile—its fear. Ready or not, she has frightening challenges to overcome: a kidnapping, a teenage son whos gone AWOL, a tired-of-waiting potential new beau, and a journalist whos made it clear that hes interested in getting more from her than the breaking news the twists in her life are offering. Torn by professional and personal struggles that have now become a full blown war, Sienna must come face-to-face with her deepest fears—and survive them—before its too late.

Leslie J. Sherrod is both a writer and a licensed social worker. Her debut novel, Like Sheep Gone Astray (Grand Central Publishing, 2006), earned a Starred Review from Booklist and was a featured selection of Glory Girls Book Club and AOL's Black Voices. She is also a contributor to two devotionals in the bestselling A Cup of Comfort series (Adams Media) and writes poetry for Paintbrush Poetry, a home-based business she shares with her husband that combines her creative writing with his original artwork. A short story she penned, "The Jericho Band" is available exclusively at Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Shorts program. She has held positions at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Cigna Behavioral Health, as well as other community-based hospitals and programs, working with families in desperate situations throughout inner-city Baltimore. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW); American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW); National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); North American Association of Christians in Social Work (NACSW); and the Black Mental Health Alliance (BMHA).