Just Before Dawn — Dinah Shields

Fear was not a stranger to her--but could she conquer it now?

Kit Brunswick was thirteen years old when she witnessed the fatal shooting of her policeman father. Ever since then, she'd kept a wary distance from the Halifax police force.

A fairly successful silversmith, Kit came home one day to find that her house had been vandalized--and that she now needed the police.

David Yeager, a young detective sergeant, was the investigating officer on the case. He believed that whoever had committed the break-in posed a real threat to Kit. But she refused to accept his warning--as'well as her growing interest in him. Even later, when she saw a face peering in the window, she still couldn't acknowledge her fear...