title: Fatal Refuge: A Mystery/Thriller (The Arizona Thriller Trilogy) (Volume 2)
author:  Sharon Sterling 
description: Sharon Sterling was born in Colorado, USA. She was a wife, mother and homemaker before completing a Master's degree in Social Work at Tulane Univeristy in New Orleans to become a psychiatric social worker. She has worked in the mental health field for more than twenty years, and lived in five different towns or cities in Arizona. The first book of her Arizona Thriller Trilogy, The Well, is set near Sedona and Cottonwood, Arizona. Fatal Refuge, the second in the series, is set in Yuma, Arizona. Southwestern scenes and southwestern flavors enliven her narratives.
zlib_text: > THE DROWNED WOMAN
  
  > AN ABSOLUTELY UNPUTDOWNABLE MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE THRILLER
  
  > CJ LYONS
  
  > ![](Images/image00175.jpeg)[ ](http://www.bookouture.com)
  
  > BOOKS BY CJ LYONS
  
  JERICHO AND WRIGHT THRILLERS SERIES
  
  [ _ _The Next Widow__](https://geni.us/B087V762MFendmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Drowned Woman__](https://geni.us/B08DZBNNRPendmatter2)
  
  FATAL INSOMNIA MEDICAL THRILLERS
  
   _Farewell to Dreams_
  
   _A Raging Dawn_
  
   _The Sleepless Stars_
  
  LUCY GUARDINO THRILLERS
  
   _Snake Skin_
  
   _Blood Stained_
  
   _Kill Zone_
  
   _After Shock_
  
   _Hard Fall_
  
   _Last Light_
  
   _Devil Smoke_
  
   _Open Grave_
  
   _Gone Dark_
  
   _Bitter Truth_
  
  ANGELS OF MERCY MEDICAL SUSPENSE
  
   _Lifelines_
  
   _Catalyst_
  
   _Trauma_
  
   _Isolation_
  
  AVAILABLE IN AUDIO
  
   _The Next Widow_ (Available in the [_UK_](http://zpr.io/Hqwmj) and the
  [_US_](http://zpr.io/Hqwms) )
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  > 