title: Fallen Hero
author: King, Rebecca
description: When Aaron learns of his best friend’s death, he has no hesitation leaving the investigation into the series of kidnappings happening up and down the country. What matters to him most is being there for the people that matter, in this case Elspeth Lincoln, his best friend’s sister.
  What he finds at her home when he arrives, though, leaves him no alternative but to begin a completely new investigation of his own. Not only at the circumstances around his friend’s death suspicious, but the dire situation he finds upon his arrival leaves him with no alternative but to take matters into his own hands.
  Elspeth, still reeling from the death of her only family, is terrified. Under threat from the lecherous local thug and facing being thrown out of the only home she had ever known, she has no choice but to turn to Aaron for help.
  What he suggests leaves her facing a completely new future that brings her many surprises, the first of which is a life of adventure. Can Aaron persuade Elspeth to make the arrangement a permanent one? Can he get to the bottom of why his friend was murdered in cold blood?