The White Picket Fence

Romantic thriller, Ciccotelli family, novella. Tino Ciccotelli is a sketch artist who discovers his newest client, a victim of a vicious assault, is his former high school art teacher. He is devastated to see her injuries and determined to help the police catch her attacker, but he must also deal with the return of her niece, his first love who left him when their lives were just beginning.

Charlotte Walsh has always regretted leaving Tino, her fear of being stuck in marriage like her parents driving her away from Tino and his dreams of a house with a white picket fence. Her life did not play out as she'd expected and, after an assault by a stalker, has returned to Philadelphia, only to have her aunt targeted for violence. 

Now she and Tino must work together to find the man who left her aunt for dead, but soon realize the killer's true target is much closer than they think.