All That Remains

All That Remains is a Harlequin Romance written by Janice  Kay Johnson
It is a story about Domestic Violence.

Wren is a young woman who is pregnant and running away from her boyfriend James. She is headed to Alabama is hopes of finding her friend, Molly who she attended school with. She has not saw Molly in years. She is driving through terrible storms and the rivers are raging.
James was very controlling and would not allow Wren to have a job, cell phone or bank account. When she had tried to leave the month before he beat her and kicked her in the stomach  hoping to kill the baby.
Suddenly Wren cannot see the road but she hears the splash of water and knows her car is in deep water. She tries to open the door but they won't open. She eventually crawls out a window loosing her purse and suitcase. The water is waist deep but she manages to reach the road on the other side. She knows she must find shelter or she will freeze. She keeps walking until she sees a driveway. She finds an old house  and no lights. She knocks but no answer and breaks a window to get inside.
She finds dry wood and matches in side and starts a fire in the stove. She looks around and finds a blanket and a mans flannel shirt. She strips off her wet clothes and puts on the shirt and snuggles on the couch in the blanket.
When she awakes she hears the stove making a funny noise and when she sits up she realizes there is water knee deep in the floor. She immediately starts hunting for steps to attic and find a pull down step and climbs to the attic. She finds more clothes and fastens a white cloth  outside the attic window. By now she realizes she is in labor!

Alec is a police detective who is searching by boat for people who are stranded from the flooding. As he passes the old house he sees the white cloths and discovers Wren. She tells him she is in labor and he knows it would be too dangerous to try to get her in  the boat so he lets the boat go and climbs in the attic with her.


Read the book about the rest of the story. I enjoyed this book.