Dirty Little Family Secret (Protect and Honor, #3)

DIRTY LITTLE FAMILY SECRET
Some secrets live beyond life and death.

Charlie Madison has everything she's worked for.

A prestigious new position as a trauma surgeon in Los Angeles. A promising career. A fresh start on the West Coast.

There's just one complication.

The dead won't leave her alone.

The women in Charlie's family have passed down something rather unusual through the generations. The moms and aunts laughingly call it the family inheritance.

Charlie has spent most of her life trying to ignore it.

Which, in retrospect, makes choosing a career that brings her face-to-face with the boundary between life and death every day a rather spectacular failure of planning.

She was supposed to be psychic, after all.

But in Los Angeles, the door Charlie has spent years trying to keep closed begins opening wider.

Soon she's making new friends on both sides of eternity, including one man who has been waiting thirty years to find someone who can hear him.

And the message he's been waiting to deliver leads Charlie straight to Maxwell Cole.

As Charlie reluctantly begins exploring the abilities she's spent her life denying, she discovers her gift may have a place alongside the medical career she loves. Sometimes saving someone means keeping them alive.

Sometimes it means helping them find their way after death.

And sometimes it means carrying a message to someone left behind.

Then there's Jack.

Smart, handsome, and part of Maxwell Cole's world, Jack might just be the man Charlie has been waiting for.

There's only one problem.

How do you tell the man you're falling for that you talk to dead people?

Between the trauma room, a family delighted that Charlie is finally embracing her inheritance, spirits who refuse to respect visiting hours, and a love life becoming considerably more complicated, Charlie's carefully constructed new beginning is turning into something she never expected.

Maybe the family inheritance isn't something she needs to hide.

Maybe it's part of who she was always meant to become.

Some secrets live beyond life and death.

Dirty Little Family Secret is Book Three in Lynn Wood's Women and Their Secrets series. Each novel tells a complete story and can be enjoyed as a standalone, while the evolving story of Maxwell Cole connects the series.