Scent of Danger: Nick Phillips, a young doctor at the start of his career, loses his wife Linda along with their unborn child in a car accident. All his years of training were of no use as they die before his eyes in the emergency room. He steps away from medicine, first in grief , hiding from himself and the world, then to search for a new direction to his life. He’d loved his pregnant wife dearly. He remembered their gentle times together, her soft, kind touch. Although committed to her, his obsession was for medicine. Now the drive to be the best was gone.
He can’t help others if he can’t help himself. The path once so clear, won’t come back into focus. He climbs onto his bicycle and rides away from his home in New York City. Often asked to use his skill so highly honed in medical school, he assists others on his aimless journey across the United States. Each incident brings the recovery process closer to completion.
Marcie Corrandini, the only daughter of Europe’s reigning Mafia Don, must find a heart surgeon for her ailing father, someone who doesn’t realize who he is, will travel, assess her father’s condition, and do whatever is necessary to keep him alive.
She is being followed by Interpol, and they want to know what she is up to as she travels to Paris to do business for her father’s legitimate enterprises and researches cardiologists.
When she contacts Nick’s best friend, Jim Franks, still employed by the CIA, he can’t resist an opportunity to gain knowledge of the Corrandini family. Hans Mueller from Interpol is the lead agent watching the Corrandini Family. Hans is eager to gain information and will do anything to get this doctor placed on the Corrandini yacht in Monaco.
Nick has never met anyone like Marcie. No one has ever generated this type of excitement within him. A beautiful woman who knows no fear. She is passionate, lives for today, never worries about tomorrow, and has never been denied anything.
Marcie finally glimpses the cold dark side of her father. Her father asked her to do this one thing for him that could save his life. The assassination of her father puts her on the run. She is now a target and realizes she must leave the comforts she has known all her life and find some kind of existence someplace no one will ever think to look for her. She covertly travels from Monaco to get to her bank accounts in Switzerland, transfers money to other accounts, and then goes into hiding. For the second time Nick loses a woman he cares for.
Friends and enemies, assist and pursue her, and several times Marcie is found; First in a small town in Michigan, then in New York City at a children’s charity auction. Both Nick and Marcie are then put into the Witness Protection Programs, Nick by the United States and Marcie by Interpol. Only Hans Mueller seems to know where both are. How they find each other again is the story, set in Omak and Okanogan, small towns in Washington State.
Here Nick takes over an existing small town practice from a retiring doctor and Marcie, now Mary, buys an accounting firm. Their meeting is orchestrated from Europe, but also unwittingly by members of their small community as they daily pass within minutes of each other.
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