When Olivia Mayfield arrived in Florida, hoping to escape her rich, powerful father and controlling ex-boyfriend, the attraction between her and Anders Erickson was immediate and mutual.

But after the two are involved in a horrific motorcycle accident, Anders finds himself plunged into a terrible nightmare. The severely injured Olivia mysteriously disappears from the hospital, and her father will stop at nothing to prevent Anders from discovering the truth . . .

In a desperate search against time that takes him all the way from his Florida home to the quaint New England town of Olivia's youth and to the wild, haunting African savannah of her birth, Anders is tested to his limits. And as he struggles to save the woman he loves, can he reconcile his own tortured past and, in doing so, save himself as well . . . ?

Julie Compton is the author of the legal thriller, Tell No Lies. An attorney by profession, she most recently worked as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice, but gave up law to pursue writing full-time when she moved to Florida in 2003. She now lives near Orlando with her husband and two daughters. Rescuing Olivia is her second novel. Visit her online at www.julie-compton.com.