Silent Witness

She watched her husband kill a man. For six months she kept his secret. Then she ran - and now she has to say what she saw out loud, in a courtroom, with everything on the line.

Lydia Marsh arrived at Safe Harbor with one bag, a burner phone, and eleven years of a marriage she's still learning to see clearly. She witnessed a murder. She protected the man who committed it. Now she's the only witness willing to testify - and Warren Marsh has the kind of reach that makes witnesses disappear.

Joel Stearns was brought in for one reason: keep her alive long enough to testify. He's a former detective who doesn't hover, doesn't push, and doesn't let himself care about the people he protects. He's failed at that last one before. The case that ended his career was a witness who vanished six days before trial. He never found out if she ran or was silenced.

He's not losing another one.

But the closer they get to the trial date, the deeper the corruption runs - into the evidence chain, into the legal apparatus, into the one person Lydia trusted more than anyone. And the truth about her best friend may be the thing that breaks her before Warren Marsh gets the chance.

Silent Witness is a taut Christian romantic suspense about a woman who spent eleven years protecting someone who never deserved it - and a man of quiet, operational faith who has made one promise he intends to keep.

For fans of Christy Barritt and Robin Patchen.

Safe Harbor Files, Book Two. Standalone with series arc. Clean romance. No cliffhanger.