Patti Doty

Runaway Patti Doty

Heart pounding, Quinn wakes from sleep, her mother's voice in her ears: "She's dead, and it's your fault." Forty-three-year-old psychotherapist Quinn runs away from trouble, and she has plenty - a mother who hates her, clients whose stories make her vomit, a baby who's died in her care, and relationships with drugs, alcohol, and all the wrong men. When a panic attack sends her running once more, she finds herself snowbound in a high-desert ghost town where Victoria and Vivian, the twin owners of a decrepit bed and breakfast, anoint her their savior and enlist her aid in saving their business ... as well as Vivian's stoned son, Scott. Will she face this challenge or will she run again? The twins think she will stay. Their accountant brother Owen isn't so sure, but his skepticism doesn't protect his heart from Quinn's charms. Will she run, or will she confront her own demons and open her heart to life and love?