Lincoln County, Tennessee. 1948.
Harper Tuttle Crenshaw has tried every door the law offers. Six attorneys. Five escape attempts. One restraining order signed by a judge whose hand shook when he finally saw her face.
None of it has stopped Gabriel Crenshaw. It won't. His family owns this county — the courts, the sheriffs, the silence. And he has made one promise Harper believes completely: if she leaves, he will hunt her down.
So she stops running and starts planning.
She disappears into the Idaho wilderness, drawing Gabriel across the country to meet her on ground of her own choosing. What happens there ends one threat. It costs her something she will carry the rest of her life. And it doesn't end what's waiting for her in Tennessee.
Someone hired a man to follow her. Someone watched the whole thing. Someone sees what she did in Idaho as leverage — or as reason enough to finish what Gabriel started.
Harper drove west looking for something simple. Not love. Not rescue. Just the absence of flinching. Just peace.
She's going to have to fight for it one more time.
Peace of My Heart is Southern Appalachian noir about survival without rescue, justice without courts, and one woman's determination to stop being afraid of her own shadow.
Some women endure. Some make the choice they cannot undo.
