Devil's Lake (Bittersweet Hollow Book 1)

After
two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her
family’s Vermont horse farm—only to find her parents gone to New York to try an
experimental treatment for her mother’s cancer, and her childhood friend Boone
Hawke running the farm.
Like the rest of her family, Boone has never given up hope that Portia would
return. But when she turns up battered, skinny as a twelve-year-old boy, afraid
of everything and unable to talk about what happened, he does the only thing he
can—try to help her heal. He summons the town doctor and Portia’s parents, and
sets out to put this beautiful, broken woman back together again.
Through her family's love and Boone's gentle affection, Portia gradually comes
back to herself, and starts to fall for her old friend in a whole new way. But
one thing threatens her fragile hope for recovery: The man who took her
promised that if she ever escaped, he'd kill her. Slowly. And someone is
definitely watching her...waiting to make his next deadly move.