Training Grounds (Refuge Cove)

She ran to the one place she thought she’d be safe. She was wrong.

After witnessing a powerful man cover up a murder, actress Rowan King flees Hollywood with a target on her back and nowhere to turn—except home. Refuge Cove was built by her family to protect women in danger. She just never expected to become one of them.

The last thing she wants is to bring trouble to their doorstep. But someone already knows where she is.
Security specialist Wes Bennett expects his latest assignment at Refuge Cove to be simple: strengthen the sanctuary’s defenses and move on. But everything changes when Rowan, the woman who left him behind a decade ago and never looked back, crashes back into his life.

As threats against Rowan escalate, Wes realizes danger has followed her to Refuge Cove. Protecting her means uncovering the truth she’s terrified to reveal.

Now Rowan and Wes must confront the past they left behind before a killer destroys any chance they have at a future.

USA Today has called Christy Barritt's books "scary, funny, passionate, and quirky."

A USA Today and Publishers Weekly best-seller, Christy writes both mystery and romantic suspense novels that are clean with underlying messages of faith. Her books have sold more than three million copies, one has been made into a TV movie, and another is being developed for a TV series.

Christy's books have won the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Suspense and Mystery, have been twice nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and have finaled for both a Carol Award and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year.

She's married to her prince charming, a man who thinks she's hilarious--but only when she's not trying to be. Christy's a self-proclaimed klutz, an avid music lover who's known for spontaneously bursting into song, and a road trip aficionado.

Christy currently splits her time between the Virginia suburbs and Hatteras Island, North Carolina. She loves spending time with her husband, her two sons, and her four dogs.

For more information, visit her website: www.christybarritt.com.