Chill Factor: A Novel

The "Cleary's Women" by Brown is a gripping, suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

When five women go missing in a small mountain town, Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her cabin and finds herself trapped with a stranger, Ben Tierney, during a blizzard.

As they wait out the storm together, Lilly wonders if the greater threat to her safety isn't the storm but the stranger beside her.

With a fresh start in Cleary, North Carolina, Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin.

As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods.

Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before.

With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can't reach her via the now impassable mountain road.

The snowy suspense will cool off Brown's fans during the dog days of summer.