Secrets of His Own. Amanda Stevens

shrugged. “People usually come to a place like this for one of two reasons. They’re either running away or they’re hiding from something.”

      Or someone.

      Carrie wanted to ask which category he fit into, but she held her tongue.

      “Maybe she knew you’d come here looking for her so she left.”

      “She couldn’t have known I was coming. I didn’t tell anyone.” Too late, Carrie realized her mistake. She was miles from civilization and she’d just admitted to a stranger that no one knew where she was. She’d said nothing of her plans to anyone at the magazine and her parents were in Europe for a month. And her friends…Carrie hated to admit it, but they probably wouldn’t miss her, either. They were accustomed to her sometimes eccentric behavior.