Josh Mitchell leads an enviable life in the eyes of most people who know him. But he lives with disturbing secrets, too. And not even his best friend and former partner knows that Josh Mitchell travels with a hidden past.It's on a routine business flight from New York to San Francisco that Josh meets the intriguing woman who with strange reluctance reveals her name as Pamela Morrow. She is mysterious, elusive, alluring, and Josh could easily believe he has been waiting for Pamela Morrow all his life.Their romance is brief, a matter merely of hours, as Pamela Morrow's body is discovered the following morning, within sight of Josh's hotel room, on the beach at Carmel. While Josh becomes the prime suspect, he also remains, surprisingly, a free man.Haunted by their chance encounter and falling in love with his memory of her, Josh desperately attempts to unravel the mystery of Pamela Morrow's death, and life. What Josh does not know is that his own fate is controlled by two implacable forces: someone is determined to make him pay for the murder he's trying to solve, and Pamela Morrow was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Jackson, Mississippi, eight years before. Read Less