Portrait of an Unlikely Affair

An adventure of improbable events begins…. She captivates the public simply by being herself. Avonlea Stone is the sweetheart of film and television, living a fairy tale in the eyes of her fans, the public, and the media. Being part of a prominent family who owns their own production studio, Avonlea is well aware of what is expected of her. But her life suddenly changes at the age of nineteen when she is attacked by a stalker. She promptly ends her engagement to her co-star Dave Garton and goes into hiding, avoiding the spotlight in her own life until she decides to take a chance on dating again. However, she never expected that Connor Jones, her new boyfriend, would be the key to finding the very thing she didn't know she was missing when he asks her to go home to meet his parents who reside in a small mining town called Cable Glen in northwest Montana. Today's the day Connor and Avonlea arrive to meet Connor's mother Jan and her husband, Tom Ridley. Cable Glen is a complicated small town with its truth hidden in plain sight and it takes a lot to keep it that way. The town's patriarch is Judge Thomas Ridley and as usual Tom has a lot on his mind. Being a judge is just optics. His real role is that of a general in a very classified military unit that makes its home in Cable Glen. But today is a special day as Cable Glen is going to have the deadliest soldier in the world stationed there. Known as 249, this soldier has long been designated as a weapon, not a human, and is the only surviving soul of the feared unit known as Oscar Company. 249 holds answers in his mind, solutions to the massacre of his Company, as well as specialized training that died with the very people who created him. 249 also has a rare terminal disease and time is ticking. Tom knows that the loss of 249 will be a devastating personal blow to him as he knows 249's true identity – Brian, Tom's middle son. Now Tom is bringing his son to Cable Glen so he can oversee whatever time his son has left, and today Tom has forgotten that he is meeting his stepson Connor at the airport until the jet makes its descent. With movie royalty and a classified weapon inbound on the same day, two worlds such as these were never meant to collide. This is just the beginning of a six-book adventure that entangles the reader in life, love, and honor.