Mean Streak/Sandra Brown/409 pgs.

Dr. Emory Charbonneau is a pediatrician, plus a marathon runner. She and her husband, Jeff, are having marital issues. He doesn't want her to run a mountain road in North Carolina, but Emory goes anyway in order to give herself time "to think." On the run, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself at the mercy of an unknown man in a mountain cabin. Her "rescuer" won't tell her his name or anything about himself, leaving Emory's imagination to run wild. All is not what it appears to be: was Emory's concussion an accident? Why does Jeff wait so long to report her missing? Most importantly, who IS the mysterious rescuer, and why is he being hunted? It's a fast read, and pretty standard "Sandra Brown." I will admit, I felt "duped" by the end of the novel.