Diane Hester's 'Cold Run To Me'

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Diane Hester wrote a suspense thriller cold Run to me. Run to me is about Shyler O’Neil’s a women suffering post-traumatic stress after the death of her young son. She retreats to cabin in the woods of Northern Maine, and isolated setting were she grew up, spent many vacations with her family. She’s living there for two years when young Zack blanged her. Shows up a young boy being perused by killers. Shyer faced with a difficult choice of protecting. This is a scenarios that is too similar to the one which in her young son died, but the minute she choses to do so she believes that Jack is her son. Jack is a homeless boy, he’s an orphan he’s been moved from one foster home to another for the last three years. And beneath the tough exterior

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