Cast a Pale Shadow

Rescued as she flees her abusive family, Trissa Kirk finds respite in the arms of Nicholas Brewer.

Nicholas has a dark past to hide and a fierce determination to retain full grasp of his present. Always the shadow of his other self, Cole threatens to overtake him. It is Cole who guards his most dreaded memories and Cole who has stolen great swatches of his time so that Nicholas ceases to exist

Trissa and Nicholas patch together a substitute family they hope will buffer them from a world unkind to both of them.

Their peace is threatened by Trissa’s father, who is determined to retrieve her from her new life.

The confrontation between Bob Kirk and Nicholas ends in murder and the reemergence of Cole.

Now Trissa must summon the strength to discover which of her two loves is man and which is shadow.