Forever Yours by Megan Baughman is a thriller and suspense novella that begins in 2012, where we find Delaney Hutchins is being stalked. Her stalker leaves her hand written notes on her car that say "I miss you, I am yours forever." She has moved six times in two years. One day she finds a note on her bedside night table. Terrified, she hides in the corner of her living room with a steak knife for an hour, but her stalker has nerves of steel and out waits her.

Three years have passed and we meet Olivia Edwards. She's a 35 year old investigative reporter hot on the trail of Delaney's killer. Apparently, her body was missing for two days before it was found. In addition to Delaney an additional ten other women have gone missing who had similar experiences. Olivia is engaged to Matt, but during the two years it takes to crack the case and get Brody Jackson (Delaney's ex-boyfriend) locked up for the murder Olivia falls for Derek Hodge, the detective assigned to the case.

After Brody is locked up, Olivia breaks off her engagement. Matt is on his way to talk to Olivia when he's run over by a hit and run driver.

Fast forward a few years and Olivia is now a Journalism Professor in Kansas City. She has a teaching assistant and everything. She hasn't seen Derek in a couple of years, but guess who decides to move to Kansas City? So, Olivia is beginning a new semester, has new students to teach, and by the way she now has a stalker. A stalker who leaves her flowers and notes. But Brody is locked up. Could Olivia have been a part of getting the wrong person convicted of murder?

In 2014, there was a television show entitled Stalker. It featured Lieutenant Beth Davis as an expert in the field of repeated harassment driven by personal experience of being a victim. She investigated cases of stalking, voyeurism, and cyber harassment. I also read that eight percent of women and two percent of men in the United States have been stalked sometime in their life. The author has managed to touch on a subject that is as dangerous and deadly as it is deceiving. Deceiving because the person being stalked may not take it seriously until it's too late and deceiving because the person doing the stalking is deceiving themselves that their behavior is a legitimate and healthy way of showing love.

Reading Forever Yours reminded me of when I read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Baughman manages to keep us guessing with misdirection until almost the very end who the stalker/killer is. And surprise, surprise she manages to do it in a short novella. I give Forever Yours a 3 out of 5 stars for it's excellent storyline and character development.

How can you get away from someone who is always there? Read Forever Yours and find out, if you dare....

The author Megan Baughman is a marketing professional by day and a writer by night. Forever Yours is her first completed novella, but hopefully not her last!