When beautiful Audra Campbell returned to the town she had lived in with her aunt, after having been gone for several years, the first bit of gossip she heard was that Martin Satterfield was recently widowed, following the untimely, and suspicious death of his late wife.
Audra had never cared for the hostile, dark, brooding man, and liked his late wife even less. In spite of her Aunt Celeste's staunch loyalty to him, Audra can't help but question whether the volatile, intimidating master of Hawthorn Manor had anything to do with Darlene Satterfield's sudden demise.
A relentless, but inadequate detective is bent on proving that Martin Satterfield is guilty, but finds himself in the crosshairs of a man who prefers being the predator, rather than the prey.
The lone descendant, and heir to the Satterfield fortune now roams the many hallways of the impressive, but silent, isolated Hawthorn Manor, surrounded by miles of fields, and meadows, and the graves of all those who had loved him, but left him.
Martin's secret dread is living out his remaining years by himself, and dying alone, yet he remains disturbingly forbidding and aloof, and Audra wonders if the master of Hawthorn Manor deserves his fate.

Rhonda Hanson is one of a pair of twins, the youngest of ten siblings, raised on Black Bayou in Louisiana. For much of her childhood, she lived without the luxuries of indoor plumbing and electricity and, growing up without the Internet, devices, or television, she was left to discover the exciting worlds that can only be discovered within the pages of a good book. She is a collector of vintage children's books, and is not embarrassed to admit that she will reread the same book over and over, if it makes her happy. Her own imagination began to be challenged at an early age, and she would pen practically anything and everything that fermented in her mind, much of which is sadly lost or left back in her youth, probably in some old trunk in someone's barn.Today, Rhonda is a novelist, recording artist, songwriter, musician and speaker, but her most crowning achievement is being "Grammy" to her two granddaughters. She spends her days in middle Tennessee, writing, convincing feral cats that the Hanson Hotel is open for business, bragging to anyone who will listen about her grandchildren and tearing all her MacBooks apart and rebuilding them, because of her stubborn refusal to upgrade.Her first completed novel was "Father's Choice", book one in the three-book Father series, followed by Father's Wings and Father's Song, and the linked novel Father's Friend. Rhonda is also the author of a children's book, "The Adventures Of Pahwoo And Her Friends", which is the narrative of an ongoing bedtime story she regularly told her grandchildren, for a period of over seven years.