KAREN V. ROBICHAUD
THE BOOKS
LEIGH FALLS
ISBN-1-591605-23-7
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Meet Kate LeRue, a courageous mother and widow who is the sole eyewitness to a brutal murder. But before she can testify against the killer in court, someone threatens Kate and her young daughter's lives. Kate takes her daughter and flees the city of Carlow, Georgia. They drive across country until unexpected car trouble forces them to stop in the seaside resort town of Leigh Falls, Maine.
Meet Jake Cole, the sheriff of Leigh Falls. He is a Christian but is struggling to forgive the person he thinks is responsible for his brother's death in a car accident.
In Leigh Falls, Kate and Jake meet and are immediately and intensely attracted to each other. But Jake's suspicions about who Kate really is, and Kate's fear that Jake will discover that she is a woman on the run, leaves little hope of any kind of relationship between them.
And then the man who threatened Kate and her daughter suddenly shows up in Leigh Falls, and although Kate senses that God is telling her not to run but to trust Him with their lives, she is struggling to obey.
In the riveting, suspense-filled conclusion, Kate discovers she can trust God's promises to take care of His children and Jake comes to understand true forgiveness.
WHERE THE RIVER FLOWS
ISBN-68-3459876038524
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On a bitterly cold night in February of '81, the sleepy seaside town of Leigh Falls was awakened by a suspicious fire that claimed the life of the lighthouse keeper out at Shipwreck Cove. Immediately, the rumors began and suspicion fell on the lighthouse keeper's daughter, fifteen-year-old Mercy Lee Hodder. Devastated by the malicious gossip, Mercy Lee smashes some windows in several of the town's shops and then flees town.
Now, twenty-two years later, Mercy Lee is back. But somene is not happy to see her. Trouble soon begins and Sheriff Jake Cole, a close childhood friend of Mercy Lee's, has his hands full in trying to prevent another tragedy from unfolding in Leigh Falls.
In this riveting, suspense-filled sequel to Leigh Falls, Jake and the woman he loves, Kate LeRue, learn much about the importance of trust in their relationship, and Mercy Lee Hodder discovers that God never turns His back on His children.
BEYOND WINTER'S SHADOW
ISBN-58-2459886032524
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On a frigid December night, in the sleepy, seaside town of Leigh Falls, Maine, a distraught woman walks determinedly across the frozen Blue River until she plunges through the thin ice into the freezing water.
While firefighters struggle to recover the body, Sheriff Jake Cole investigates the case and discovers that three women from town are missing. And one of them is his own sister-in-law, Sandy, who has been battling severe depression for many years. The other two women have suspiciously disappared after fierce arguments with their husbands.
In addition, one of the missing women's husbands, a former college boyfriend of Jake's true love, Kate LeRue, has begun to pursue her. The other husband is a cruel, hot-tempered man who Jake suspects of physically abusing his wife before she disappeared.
In this gripping, suspense-filled third novel in the Leigh Falls series, Jake confronts the most difficult case of his career and the most challenging test of his Christian walk.
AN EVENING SKY IN AUTUMN
ISBN-978-1-61579-912-1
Travis Landon, a police detective in Bismarck, North Dakota, loses his wife and unborn daughter in an automobile accident. Then his father is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and moves in with Travis. Hoping for a fresh start, Travis accepts a position as deputy sheriff in the town of Tranquility, Massachusetts.
Soon after Travis arrives in Tranquility, the town's chief of police leaves on a two-week honeymoon. Travis agrees to fill in as temporary police chief. And trouble begins. An elderly farmer vanishes, and a strange woman and her two sons are living in the missing man's farmhouse.
Meanwhile, two hundred miles away, in Concord, New Hampshire, a young woman is abducted by a man who has been stalking her. She escapes and runs for her life to a safe haven in Tranquility with her abductor in close pursuit.
While resistng an intense attraction to each other, Travis and his striking deputy, Lane Avery, attempt to solve the mystery of the missing farmer, and stop the stalker before he tracks down and harms the young woman.
