In 2023 the news splashed headlines like "Romance Novelist Missing After Police Car Chase" and while the car chase was real, the missing was really her disappearing of her own free will to heal from the PTSD of the chase, and a stalker taking all of her books down from Amazon. She took the money she'd saved and went to Kaui, as far from the snowy winter she'd just been stuck in as she could proverbially get. And healing from her trademark debacle was necessary more than she knew. So wait. Why was there a car chase? See, a ranger found her lost in a national park, inside her car, hands in prayer pose, eyes closed, praying for an exit. When he directed her to pull into an enclosed area rather than offering to guide her to the way out of the snow-laden park, she hit the gas instead, driving at top speeds in the blustering snow until road spikes stopped her adrenaline. There she told the other rangers & police officers why, and they found her clean of any other motive, and stone cold sober. As for the "fugitive" headlines, well, they didn't really understand the definition - that a fugitive is one who is in hiding or who has escaped. Faleena was neither. And you don't give a "fugitive" a Zoom trial. Ya kinda want them in front of ya.

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