title: Three-Year Rule
author: Stanford, Alaina
description: Instead of finding a serene mountain retreat to write her next book, Elizabeth unknowingly allows a stalker the freedom not only to observe her without detection but to get close enough to kill. Elizabeth finally decides to move from the city to her uncle’s property in Utah to write in seclusion. When she hires Joshua to build her home deep in the mountains, she’s amazed to discover the rugged construction owner's slightest touch rockets her pulse and leaves her wanting more. Josh looks more like a lumberjack out of some romance novel than a residential builder. More importantly, he’s the complete opposite type of man that Elizabeth usually goes for. But there was something about him she just couldn’t resist. In fact, Josh’s honest, take me as you see me attitude threatened to ruin the three-year relationship rule Elizabeth had sold to the world. Hundreds of thousands of women now believed, as she did, that everyone shows a fake personality when they meet a new love. Everyone hides their true inner self and tries to pretend to be the person they believe their new love desires. Elizabeth’s fascination with Josh becomes her main focus. She ignores everything else in an attempt to prove Josh is not who he appears to be. She misses the warning signs she would have easily seen before. Items suddenly go missing from her rental house. After a break-in places her cherished golden retriever, Charlie in danger, Elizabeth rolls her eyes as the sheriff suggests a stalker. She’s a psychologist. If she had a stalker, she’d know it…