The Unforgiven Author:Patricia J. MacDonald Maggie Fraser has spent 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. After a scandalous trial, she tried to kill herself and failed. Now this is all behind her. She is still young and attractive and free...free to start a new life, alone and unknown. Maggie eagerly looks forward to a job at the local newspaper on the New England island ... more »of Heron's Neck. When she arrives at the newspaper, she is met with hostility from two women, Grace and Evy, who work there, Maggie quickly proves herself as a competent reporter. Soon Maggie and the ruggedly handsome co-worker Jess are drawn into a passionate love affair. When Maggie learns that the much younger Evy is in love with Jess, Maggie is torn between continuing her relationship with Jess and not hurting Evy. Then without warning, Maggie is plunged into a world of terror. First someone puts deadly fragments of glass in a pie that Maggie baked for a local fair. Then she finds a puppy hideously electrocuted in her bathtub...and Jess, the man she has come to love, mysteriously disappears without a trace. Horrified, Maggie realizes she is being stalked and tormented by a deranged killer who is determined to teach her that there is no sanctuary and no escape for the Unforgiven.« less