Unbreakable Ties

"You'll never be rid of me." Stan Burgan was a successful businessman with two perfect houses and a fantastic life. He loved his wife more than life itself but when she was brutally murdered, Stan wanted to move on and, more importantly, forget. That was easier said than done, for those words, insignificant though they may have seemed, set upon his mind like tiny hurricanes influencing every moment of his life thereafter. Carla's six dying words, uttered as her life slipped away, turned Stan's life upside down. Her words would eat away at Stan's very soul, like a spiritual cancer, endangering his relationships, his job and eventually, his sanity. When rose petals began to show up around Stan and the people that he loved, they held nothing but a confused fascination for him at first. Little did he know that they would be at the hub of strange occurrences which would tear his life apart. The petals and Carla's final declaration not only changed Stan's life but also the life of Rena Hunter, the tough, independent Police Officer determined to go to any length to catch Carla Burgan's killer even if it means putting her own life, and career, on the line. Neither Stan nor Carla knew it at the time but that sentiment, expelled with her dying breath would ring far truer than either of them knew or understood. "You'll never be rid of me".