title: Reconstructing Roman
author: Kerns, Sandra S.
description: Devastated after the unexpected deaths of her parents, Kaia Beecher needs a change. She finds it in her inheritance, her grandparents' farm in Colorado. Looking forward to a new challenge she moves from NYC to Beechbrook, Colorado. Her excitement dims when she receives threatening phone calls telling her to leave and the townspeople think she's a ghost. The only bright spot is her neighbor who offers to help her with repairs. Roman Smirnosky wants nothing more than to work and be left alone. After years of being on his own and building a business, he thinks he's finally found peace. All that changes with a single phone call informing him his parents have been murdered and his brother's in the hospital. He returns to his home town after sixteen years to help his brother and find his parents' murderer. When someone moves into the old Beecher place, he offers to help her with repairs while he tends to his brother's farm. It will provide a welcome distraction from the nightmarish memories that haunt him since his return He quickly realizes he couldn't be more wrong when accidents and threatening phone calls start to plague the young woman. He's definitely no hero, but walking away from a fight isn't his way either. It doesn't hurt that Kaia Beecher's determination and strength tempt him to distraction. His quiet, solitary life is about to be thrown into chaos.