<div><P><B>Melanie runs away.<br><I>From conflict. From pain. From reality.</I></B><br><br> When novelist Melanie Vander faces a looming deadline she decides it's time for an escape to an inspiring novel-worthy locale. She's not running away. Really. She just needs time to focus. But as she disappears into her writing she encounters a man whose tenderness leaves her reeling. Engaging and wise psychologist Elliot Hammond tempts Melanie to question everything including her marriage.</P><P>But that's ridiculous. Dr. Hammond isn't even... <I>real</I>.<br><br> Melanie's husband Craig has his own problems including a recession that's threatening his business. Waning finances a looming home foreclosure and a wife who's checked out emotionally have Craig feeling as though he's carrying his burdens alone. When his client the beautiful and single Serena Buchanan offers him a fix to his financial woes he's tempted by more than her offer of a business solution.<br><br> At a crossroads Melanie and Craig seem headed in opposite directions.<br><br> Will Melanie run again? Or will she allow her characters to lead her home?<br><br><I>He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.<br> Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV</I></P></div>
