title: Next of Kin
author: Sala, Sharon
description: TROUBLE FOR ONE -- TROUBLE FOR ALL.
  
  Beth Venable has seen too much. Witness to a major mob hit, she's placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is riddled with bullets, she goes off-grid to save herself. What the FBI can't do, her kinfolk will.
  
  The beautiful but forbidding Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky welcome Beth back, dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from L.A. But her homecoming -- even her blissful reunion with strong, silent Ryal Walker -- is made bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan's doorstep. Hidden in a remote cabin with the man she's always wanted, Beth begins to dream of a new life: her old one. But after so long, with such dangers stalking her...impossible.
  
  But love can distill life down to its essence: an elixir of pure hope, nerve -- and the will to survive.