Chill Factor (2005) - Sandra Brown

Sandra Brown

Category: Suspense

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Suspense, Romance

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And theres always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace., It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Clearys chief of police. Dutchs reluctance to let her go isnt Lillys only obstacle. As shes trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom shed met the previous summer. Theyre forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly