title: Dark Fugitive
author: Benedict, Clare
description: Just before Christmas, orphaned Laura Stewart discovers that her boyfriend, Steve Fraser, is not all he seems. Hurt and angered by his deception, Laura sets out for her cottage in the Penine Fells. On the way, in worsening weather, she catches a news flash on the car radio about a brutal killing and this increases her determination to seek refuge in her remote childhood home.
  
  On arrival Laura finds her cottage occupied by a man who claims to be a stranded walker seeking shelter. Laura forgets her former problems when she realises she could be snowed in with a man she believes could be Julian North - the suspected wife killer. Constantly under threat, she soon begins to doubt her own sanity - how can she fall in Love with a murderer?