The Life I Didn’t Choose

A new identity, a protective marshal, and a connection that outlasts the trial.

About the story

A new name can keep her alive. It cannot tell her whom to trust.

Claire Whitmore is not the name she was born with. After witnessing a crime and testifying, a new identity is part of staying alive. U.S. Marshal Jonah Pierce has been assigned to protect her long enough for that disappearance to become permanent.

He is careful and controlled. Their check-ins keep lasting a little longer than they should. Neither acknowledges what is happening, because wanting someone is one thing and wanting the person responsible for your safety is another. When the trial ends, the feelings they have avoided are still there.

An adult witness-protection romantic suspense novel told from Claire’s perspective. Discover information when she does, with the tension of a new identity and a connection that outlasts the immediate danger.

Your kind of romance?

• Witness protection and a new identity
• Claire Whitmore and U.S. Marshal Jonah Pierce
• Single perspective: Claire
• Adult romantic suspense

Read a short excerpt

Chapter one · Claire

“You can call me Claire,” I said, because apparently I was already so far gone that I was correcting a federal marshal on the etiquette of my own fake name. “Since I’m going to have to get used to hearing it.”

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