Betrayed (CORE Sector: Spies on the Run)
Originally released under another pen name, now reimagined and republished as Patti Ann Stafford.
When Charlotte McDougal discovers her grandmother’s hidden journals, she is drawn into a shadowed past steeped in forbidden truths. The pages whisper of Burke and Hare, notorious killers whose legacy of death may reach far closer than Charlotte ever imagined.
Her attempt to give voice to the secrets through a novel only awakens something darker. Threatened and pursued, she is sent across the ocean to hide—but no distance can keep the danger at bay.
In the fading light of her new refuge, Charlotte encounters Frank Temple, her brooding neighbor with secrets of his own. He offers protection, but his piercing silences and haunted past leave her torn between fear and desire. Can she place her trust in him, or is he bound to the very forces that seek her destruction?
As shadows gather and passion ignites, Charlotte must navigate a treacherous web of conspiracy, obsession, and betrayal. One wrong step could cost her freedom—or her heart.
Betrayed is a gothic romantic suspense of dark family secrets, dangerous attraction, and the haunting line between love and peril.
