Pretend We’re Safe

A refuge in winter. A freedom still worth protecting.

Winter has come to Alder Reach. Water, medicine, and the road that keeps the settlement supplied can no longer be taken for granted.

Stephanie Caddel has helped people reclaim the right to choose their own lives. Now a real emergency threatens to make the old promises of protection persuasive again.

Keeping the community alive will take practical work, uneasy trust, and decisions no one person can make for everyone.

When survival depends on one another, how much of yourself should safety cost?

Psychological survival suspense from USA Today bestselling author A. R. Shaw. The third and final book in Borrowed Lives. Read after Pretend You're Here and Pretend You Belong.