When Fences Fall (Big Love #1)

Prologue

I run to the back, down the staircase, and outside just to come to a screeching stop. There’s a ghost in my yard! No, not a ghost. A woman with long, red hair covering her completely bare back, but not long enough to cover her naked ass, is standing in my yard.

She places the sheet she had wrapped around her body on the ground. Her pale skin glows nearly translucent under the bright moonlight.

As I’m preparing to scold whoever she is, the woman bends over to spread something that looks like a blanket on the ground, fixing the corners. While she’s naked.

What is happening?

I stride toward the intruder who is in my backyard—my backyard with a six-foot fence around the perimeter. By the time I’m out my door and running toward her, she’s already sitting on the ground with legs crossed. Her arms are raised in the air, her head thrown back.

“What are you doing here?” I bark when I’m about twenty feet away from her.

She shrieks, jumping in the air and pulling her long hair over her chest. “Who are you?” she cries out.