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A decade ago, Nina Morgan made an unimaginable choice to keep her family safe: Leave them.
Nina was a witness, not a criminal. But the acts she knew about and the powerful man behind them put not just her but her husband and their two toddlers in harmâs way.
So she disappeared from their Florida home and re-created herself in Maine as wilderness guide Leah Trenton. Sheâs haunted by her loss, but she has constructed a new life, even found a new love. She stays in secret touch with her husband, Doug, and their kids, now 13 and 11, think they have an eccentric Aunt Leah out in the woods somewhere.
A decade ago, Nina Morgan made an unimaginable choice to keep her family safe: Leave them. Nina was a witness, not a criminal. But the acts she knew about and