Sonia — Karen Nichols

Sonny had seen too much of the war-torn world. Too many children and women tossed about like tinder in a tornado. She knew it was her imagination. She couldn't feel what they were living each day. But she did. Over and over until she was unable to sleep and rarely ate full meals.

Giving up freelance reporting and opening her own coast-side bed and breakfast seemed the perfect solution. She had friends who would loan her the money she needed to add to her savings, but she'd rather not involve friends with finances.

When Ryan came to her with an insane plot he wanted to enact to keep his only son from what Ryan was positive was an old fashioned gold-digger, all Sonny could so was stare.

And listen to the tiny voice taunting her with a challenge.