Nicole Helm 
Badlands Beware 

A small town cop puts a local schoolteacher under his protection when her father goes missing in this romantic suspense.The truth might hurt them both.When Detective Tucker Wyatt is sent to protect Rachel Knight from her father’s enemies, neither of them realizes exactly how much danger she’s in. As she starts making connections between her father’s past and a current disappearance, she’s suddenly under attack from all sides. But Rachel and Tucker will not back down. They’ll do whatever it takes to solve the open case, even if it means putting their lives at risk.