Sanctuary Annie — Merabeth James

Annie wakes screaming, night after night, as an old terror returns to stalk her dreams. Memories nudging at the door? She has no way of knowing, but a doubtful Annie is frightened enough to listen when her friend Gracie suggests she visit a local psychic/witch.Sister Rachel is not at all what she expected, and she is more than a little skeptical when she tells her that dark and dangerous secrets are hidden in her past and must be brought into the light…quite possible at great cost!Dismissing Sister Rachel as a colorful kook, she heads back to Oak Hill, where she has lived since the age of three, when her grandparents assumed custody of her after her mother 'dumped' her and then 'inconveniently' died in a car crash.Back home, she finds her mother's lawyer waiting for her outside the gate. He has a letter for her and a bit of news. Apparently, her mother had not died years ago, but quite recently and had left her a mysterious inheritance.Opening the letter, she is stunned to read: “Take care of Sanctuary Annie for me. It was signed: With all my love, your mother.Furious that the mother who had abandoned her and then faked her own death dared ask anything of her, Annie balls up the letter and tosses it away but Gracie urges her to go find this Sanctuary Annie and maybe, in doing so, she would find the missing pieces of her life that haunted her nightsAfter an ugly scene with her grandparents that effectively burns the bridge to the family 'castle', Annie loads up her car and heads to Belle Harbor, Florida…”a place hard to find, even when you know where to look”.Arriving in her yelllow BMW, she looks around for a five star resort and sees, to her acute dismay, only a small marina. She also runs into Jake Tremayne, a man with a dark secret of his own, and no patience for the pampered ‘princess’ invading his world.Shocked by what she has inherited,, but with no where else to go, a disgusted, angry, and sadly resigned, Annie, reluctantly, begins her new life. A life filled with many surprises... some good and some very very bad indeed!