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Welcome to the Golden State, Karen Rose! I can't wait to read a really good book set in my state of California. "Say You're Sorry" takes full advantage of the scenic area of NoCal and does an excellent job of making the area part of the suspense, which is a steady simmer throughout the book. The romance is two misfits who find each other and is wonderful. My only problem was with Daisy and her constant need for her therapy dog to help control her anxiety. She isn't even 30 and has never worked a conventional job. Her childhood, while different and her teen alcoholism, that's sad, just doesn't rise to the level that would require a canine sober companion. IMHO.

Daisy Dawson has landed in Sacramento, CA and is one of the morning DJs for a local channel. She is taking some time to find out who she is an what she wants in her life after living for years in near isolation and teen alcoholism. She has a surrogate family who loves her and supports her. Daisy and a friend are heading to a diner after their AA meeting when she is attacked and Daisy fights off her attacker, thanks to the self defense tactics her father drilled into her. She came away from the attack with the attackers souvenir of one of his victims and that starts a chain of events.

FBI Special Agent Gideon Reynolds was raised in a cult in Northern California. His mother helped him escape when he was thirteen. When he sees the locket that Daisy grasped from her attacker he knew where it came from and also the woman it had belonged to. Finding the cult has been a backburner project for Gideon for 17 years and now he had a tangible clue to follow which leads him to a serial killer who has his sights set on Daisy as the one who got away.