The shelter's fire alarm shrieks—and one resident is already dead.

Counselor Kaye Berreano hauls terrified women and children into the freezing Denver dawn, only to find Mary Ellen's body on the blackened stairwell. Arson investigator Pete Farrell leans toward accident, but Kaye sees the fear that still clings to the walls. Someone is stalking her clients and striking when the snow falls hardest.
With a hostile ex-husband in court and both teens unravelling at home, Kaye races to expose a killer hidden behind the very doors meant to keep abuse out—before her own "safe beginning" becomes a lethal end.

If you crave pulse-pounding mystery grounded in real shelter life and a heroine who refuses to give up, start Safe Beginnings today.