Catching the Lost Dream: 1

A castle frozen for twenty years. A single heart to thaw it all.Investment banking and murder-haunted forests don't usually mix. Debut author Carly Bennett delivers a gripping, small-town, second-chance romantic suspense novel in Catching the Lost Dream, the first installment of a brand new series.After botching one of the largest IPOs in the world, Jordan found her hard-won career on borrowed time. On impulse, she retreated to a run-down cottage in the heart of a dense forest. However, peace proved elusive. Between the grueling physical toll of restoring a decaying home and the friction of dealing with a local tyrant from her past, Jordan found herself in a different kind of battle.Anton was the bane of existence for the locals, a man whose presence loomed over a quaint town where the population had stagnated for thirty years. He reveled in his reputation as the local grouch. The only thing he wanted was to protect the people around him. The last thing he needed was a distraction.But when myths of murdered women in the woods manifested into a gruesome reality with the brutal assault of a young jogger on the forest trail, the peace of the valley was shattered. With threats from the past and present colliding, a disgraced financier and a stubborn local billionaire are forced into an unlikely alliance. Together, they must uncover the truth behind the violence, only to realize that nothing is as simple as it seems.