title: Cast A Pale Shadow
author: Scott, Barbara
description: A woman in need of rescuing.A man with a tortured past.The shadow who haunts them both. Rescued as she flees her abusive family by the mysterious Nicholas Brewer, Trissa Kirk is charmed by his kindness. But 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 when Nicholas ceases to exist. Throughout his adult life Nicholas has sought the magic to ward off those blank times . When he thinks he has found such magic in Trissa, what desperate measures will he take to make it last? Together, in a boarding house filled with an eclectic group of people, Trissa and Nicholas patch together a substitute family they hope will buffer them from a world that has not been kind to either of them. Their progress toward this goal is threatened by a confrontation which 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.