Conception Cover-Up (Karen Barrett Lawton).

"Conception Cover-Up" - это роман о женщине по имени Шеннон Гаррет, которая живет уединенной жизнью в своей хижине. Однажды в дождливую ночь на ее пороге появляется раненый незнакомец по имени Калеб. Она решает помочь ему и принимает его в своем доме. Между ними возникает страстная связь, но на следующее утро Калеб осознает, что его появление может поставить под угрозу жизни Шеннон и ребенка, которого она только что забеременела. Калеб скрывает свою темную прошлую жизнь и теперь ему приходится защищать свою новую семью от опасных преследователей.

CONCEPTION COVER-UPMystery, suspense, romantic intrigue, and journey into shared vulnerability combine in this compelling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Barrett Lawton and famous mystery author Michelle Lang!The body of Grand Cherokee woman, Laura Guido, is found on Shannon's front porch one night wet under a June raincoat. He has secretly made an appointment with her, but Caleb's two parental defenses collide when he stumbles out of Shannon's shower after a delicious night of carnal pleasure to find jurists and FBI agents outside his door awaiting a response.They want to take Laura from him.In the heat of circumstance, what Caleb does with Laura's body--calling 911, alerting the FBI, securing the evidence--bodes dramatically on his decision-making both as a father and as a killer.When Caleb realizes the fallout has crippling consequences for the woman, also named Laura (as well as for himself), he enlists Shannon to help conceal the early symptoms of their pending baby. Developing a friendship based on trust and collegial camaraderie, as well as standing up to a huge rebel force armored with devastating evidence and criminally dangerous tendencies, quotes are pulled from their inner circle..."I ca n't believe my friends have given me a cryptic late existential wake up call where I'm not being killed by a bullet but instead by a "becoming"...So much refugee lives here...more rope than a noose hanging upside down...I was able to empathize with his pain and sense of impending doom: A shuffle swept through his heart -- shoving confessions and eventual revelations mix on the floor, backing the places where he encounters Shannon.She pulls their future together as he desperately holds onto his past -- the hard road set up against them and what they believe they will discover through the beginning of the hidden details of life beyond the finished page." --Karen Barrett Lawton Writing as Michelle LangSHAUNN must reveal her identity to Caleb...and her mind and heart battle a big secret about something buried forever.\nTaking their relationship into a time when Shannon is reluctant and Caleb is unsure where it will go are game-changers that come with strength and delicate desires woven seamlessly together.But if Shannon compromised Caleb in order to keep Shannon, too, then it came to the axiom that the hardest single thing for Caleb to accept was the notion of losing Shannon potentially in a way worse than even leaving the memory of a lived with secrets lurking on high battery and flash connectivity...(but wonders more), but when Caleb hears a baby cry inside Shannon, he sees potential so enormous he did n't think possible.Together, they rebuild what's been lost, trust in each other when they were deemed dangerous rivals, evolve over time while things shape around them with destiny and the weathered fight battle of all good thingsRouges and next turns, their love takes twists and turns that only they can travel through for safety -- on their own terms.