Half A Life Apart

Grieving federal agent Varin Lane thought his home would forever be a monument to loss. But the house on Hawthorne Street has a secret—a ghost in its shadows. When he discovers nineteen-year-old runaway Blakey hiding within its walls he doesn’t see an intruder. He sees a fragile reflection of the daughter he lost and makes an offer that will alter both their lives. What begins as an act of guarded kindness soon deepens into an inexplicable powerful bond that bridges the decades between them. But as they build a fragile future from the pieces of their broken pasts Varin’s dangerous history resurfaces threatening to destroy the one person who has finally made his house a home again.