Family In Hiding. Valerie Hansen

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      TILL DEATH DO US PART?

      When her estranged husband Dylan’s inadvertent dealings with a crime ring bring danger to her doorstep, Grace McIntyre has no choice but to follow him into the witness protection program. To safeguard her children, they must all go into hiding as one big happy family. Grace doesn’t know what’s worse—having to pretend she’s in love with the man who betrayed her trust or keeping ahead of the killers. In hiding, Dylan is all that stands between their safety and certain death. Now more than ever, he wants to be the man that Grace once loved. Keeping his family alive is his only hope—to be a hero and a husband.

      “You can either come with me and listen to what I have to say or get ready to be a widow.”

      It took only minutes for Grace to get the entire family into the SUV. “Where are we going?” she asked.

      “Someplace unusual. And public. Preferably with a crowd.”

      “You’re scaring me, Dylan.”

      “Good. That makes two of us.”

      The Botanical Gardens, he thought. There were enough people to provide anonymity. And plenty of places to hide. Dylan sincerely hoped it wouldn’t come to that.

      He looked over at his wife. Watching her, he could barely breathe. Look what he’d had—and let slip away. Grace was one of a kind. Of all the mistakes he’d made, losing her had been the worst.

      Grace was a sensible woman. She’d see why his future—and hers—depended on the choices he was about to make.

      Now wasn’t the time to reveal how much danger he was preparing to face. The less she knew about that, the safer she’d be.

      * * *

      VALERIE HANSEN

      was thirty when she awoke to the presence of the Lord in her life and turned to Jesus. In the years that followed, she worked with young children, both in church and secular environments. She also raised a family of her own and played foster mother to a wide assortment of furred and feathered critters.

      Married to her high school sweetheart, she now lives in an old farmhouse she and her husband renovated with their own hands. She loves to hike the wooded hills behind the house and reflect on the marvelous turn her life has taken. Not only is she privileged to reside among the loving, accepting folks in the breathtakingly beautiful Ozark mountains of Arkansas, she also gets to share her personal faith by telling the stories of her heart for all the Love Inspired Books lines.

      Life doesn’t get much better than that!

      Family in Hiding

      Valerie Hansen

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      Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

      —Mark 10:14

      To my Joe, who will always be looking over my shoulder as I write.

      He was an extraordinary gift from God.

      Contents

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

       CHAPTER NINETEEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       EPILOGUE

       DEAR READER

       QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

       EXCERPT

      ONE

      “Hello? Hello?”

      Disgusted, Grace McIntyre slammed down the receiver. “Not funny, Dylan.”

      The annoying phone calls had been so prevalent lately she was thinking of changing her home number. If she hadn’t figured that the harassment was coming from her soon-to-be ex-husband, she might have already done so.

      She stared out the kitchen window, wistfully watching their children playing in the sunny backyard. At ten, Kyle was the eldest and had clearly been asserting more dominance over his three-year-old brother, Brandon, since Dylan had packed his personal belongings and moved out of the family home for good.

      “It wasn’t my fault,” Grace murmured, desperately yearning