Celebrate Lit / September 12, 2026

Shadowing You

About the Book Shadowing You

Book: Shadowing You (The Wright Heroes Book 10)

Author: Robin Patchen

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense

Release Date: September 8, 2026

When the wife he believed dead calls from China, an ER doctor races to find her before her enemies silence her forever.

Ethan Wright never recovered from the death of his first love.

Six years ago, Mei Lin discovered evidence linking powerful officials to a human trafficking ring. She planned to smuggle the details out of China and join her new husband in America—but COVID sealed the borders before she could escape. Snatched by the men she’d been investigating, she was wrongfully imprisoned while authorities claimed she had died in quarantine. Now, Mei Lin’s sudden release doesn’t mean she’s free.

Ethan will stop at nothing to get his wife out of China, but he has no idea where she is. He must reach out to his estranged father, a former CIA agent who has powerful connections. With his dad’s help, Ethan begins a desperate search. He finally finds Mei Lin, but she refuses to run without the evidence that could expose the conspiracy—and ensure they’re never hunted again.

Reunited after years apart, Ethan and Mei Lin must rediscover the love they thought they’d lost—while staying one step ahead of enemies who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden.

**From a USA Today bestselling author… You’ll love this heart-pounding suspense and gripping romance as Ethan and Mei Lin discover that real love is strong enough to survive anything.**

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My Thoughts on Shadowing You

Shadowing You is a wonderful contemporary fiction novel with plenty of danger and suspense, plus some romance as well. I loved getting to know Ethan, plus seeing how he learned about his siblings and how they all got to really know each other.

You see, Ethan is his father’s secret child. Born between two of his sisters, but they’re from a different mother. Let’s be clear here. Ethan has known about his sisters, but they haven’t known about him until very recently. They walk in on him and his father having a meal together and make the connection. Ethan sees them as hurt and mad; he feels they resent him and want nothing to do with him.

You see, he’s gotten to know one of his sisters without her knowing who he is. They’ve become friends. Only, she now knows he’s been lying to her, but was it his secret to tell?

Okay, so that’s some backstory.

Now for Ethan’s story. He was raised by a single mother. His father was distant. He’d visit occasionally, but he always provided for them. And when he was around, he was attentive and showed Ethan love. But Ethan finds out he’s a secret, and he gets mad. As a teenager, he wants nothing to do with his father.

They slowly start to form a relationship of sorts as Ethan is an adult.

When Ethan finds out his wife is actually alive, he reaches out to his father for help. Gavin has connections. You see, Ethan got married to a wonderful woman, but she had to stay in China waiting on a Visa. However, COVID happened. And she got into some trouble by finding out about a human trafficking ring. She went to prison, and the powers that be told Ethan that she was dead.

Ethan tried to go on with his life. But he puts everything on hold when he hears she’s alive.

The problem is she wasn’t supposed to be released from prison. But a new person in charge couldn’t find any paperwork saying why she was there and wasn’t going to keep her. And now? When the man who put her there finds out she’s out, he’s on a mission to kill her.

Can Ethan get to her in time?

And once he’s there, can he keep her alive? Can he get her to the United States? But most importantly, can he swallow his pride and his preconceived notions about his family to be willing to accept their help?

This was such a wonderful fast-paced novel. I’ve read all of the Wright books. The ones about the brothers and the ones about the sisters and now this one about Ethan. I’m very sad to see this series end and am secretly hoping for them to pop back up in other books.

You’re going to love this novel. It will make the most sense if you read the rest of the series first. But it can be read as a standalone. I don’t advise it. But it can be done.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review, nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of Shadowing You

Robin Patchen is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of Christian romantic suspense. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, the setting of her Coventry Saga books, and then headed to Boston to earn a journalism degree. Working in marketing, she discovered how much she loathed the nine-to-five ball and chain.

After relocating to the Southwest, she started writing her first novel while homeschooling her three children. The novel was dreadful, but her passion for storytelling didn’t wane. Thankfully, as her children grew, so did her writing ability. Now that her kids are adults, she has more time to play with the lives of fictional heroes and heroines, wreaking havoc and working magic to give her characters happy endings.

When she’s not writing, she’s editing or reading, proving that most of her life revolves around the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Visit robinpatchen.com/subscribe to receive a free book and stay informed about Robin’s latest projects.

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Saying Goodbye to Shadow Cove

When I typed the last sentence of Shadowing You, the final Wright Heroes of Maine book, I was dehydrated from all the tears I’d shed. These Wrights feel like family to me. I can’t imagine leaving them behind.

From about book five, I knew about Ethan, the son his father kept secret. I didn’t know his plot yet, though. When I met Mei Lin and understood where she’d been for the last six years, I couldn’t wait to share their story.

But first, I want you to get to know Gavin.

The Wright family has two branches. Roger Wright and his wife, Peggy, raised six sons on an apple farm in central Maine. Roger was a physician who never put his work ahead of his children. He was steady and present, the kind of man his boys grew up wanting to be.

His brother Gavin is a different story. He was a CIA officer, gallivanting the world while his wife, Evelyn, raised their five daughters. For most of the girls’ lives, he was distant and guarded, always one assignment away from coming home. Even after he retired from the CIA, he started a business that kept him close to DC—and far from his family in Shadow Cove.

None of those girls knew anything about their father’s son.

Ethan was raised by a single mother in Virginia. Gavin supported them but visited on his own terms. Ethan grew up knowing he was his father’s secret, too shameful to share with Gavin’s real family.

All Ethan ever wanted was a family of his own, which might be the reason that, when his girlfriend finished nursing school and returned home to China, he followed her and proposed. They were married the same week. But after the honeymoon, Ethan had to return to the States, and Mei Lin had to stay in China until her visa came through.

It should have been a matter of weeks, maybe a couple of months at most. But the pandemic hit. And then Mei Lin disappeared. A few months later, Ethan and her parents got word that she’d contracted the disease and died.

But Mei Lin isn’t dead.

Six years ago, she uncovered a human trafficking ring and started gathering evidence against the man in charge. She didn’t know he was on to her until she was arrested and thrown into prison. Nobody came to visit her, not her parents, not her brother, and not the husband who’d promised to love her forever. A few years into her imprisonment, she lost hope that she’d ever be freed. And then, after six torturous years, she was released—just like that.

She might be out of prison, but her enemy can’t let her escape from China. Mei Lin calls the husband who left her to rot, not asking—or expecting—anything from him except some money to help her get to safety.

She certainly doesn’t expect him to fly around the world to find her.

But Ethan hasn’t forgotten Mei Lin.

Now that he knows she’s alive, he’ll do everything in his power to get her to safety, including rushing into a country he barely understands. And reaching out to the father he rarely speaks to.

But Gavin isn’t the only one who jumps in to help Ethan and Mei Lin escape China. I won’t spoil it for you, but I know you’ll enjoy seeing some old friends in this story.

Thanks for spending your valuable time in Shadow Cove. Enjoy one last story before you move on to your next destination.

As for me, I’ll be just up the coast in Briar Bay, Maine, where three castaway children…

Well, we’ll talk about that one next time.