Love Hurts (Finding Love, #5)

Emma Masters-Carter finds herself a virgin widow after three years of marriage. Following the stress and turmoil of caring for her terminally ill husband, she is forced to leave her remote desert home that she loves to travel to Tucson, Arizona. Here she meets with her husband's lawyer and finds he has left her an unexpected heiress, which has her reeling from the news. One evening, she finds herself in her motel's crowded restaurant forced to share her table with a handsome stranger that ignites something inside her she thought never to feel.Garth Reynolds, a Los Angeles private investigator, is on his way home from a much needed vacation with old friends when he shares a table at supper with a beautiful widow. When Garth is called on to help the LAPD with a special case, he and Emma are sad to leave one another but he promises to return to her after the case is finished. But when a copycat serial killer begins to target women close to the men working the case, Garth fears for Emma's safety.Will he and the police be able to capture the madman and keep Emma safe? Or will she be torn away from him before their love has had a chance to bloom?