A Hunted Heart — J.J. Massa

For the last decade, Von Branigan has lived his solitary life estranged from the only woman he had ever loved. He'd been wronged and for ten long years he isolated himself from the world, keeping his hurt and loneliness wrapped around him like a cloak.

Though inconsolably immersed in feelings of bitterness and still wounded by betrayal, when the police call to tell him that his wife was attacked by a madman, Von's entire world shifted on its axis.

Like all great authors, FBI profiler Tatiana Branigan has drawn from personal experience in the creation of her best-selling thriller series. But few realize just how up-close-and-personal those experiences are. Ten years ago her fairy-tale marriage ended, wrecked by a man who has obsessively hunted her and a memory that's haunted her.

Tatiana has struggled through ten years of hell. Refusing to give in to the devastation visited on her by her husband's desertion and the attentions of a madman, she's worked nonstop to pull her life together.

Tati is tired now. She's done. If not for Von, she would have thrown in the towel and let the bad guy win. He was her best friend once. Have the years without her taught him bitterness or has he finally grown into the man she thought she'd married? Is there a safe haven out there for her hunted, wounded heart?