At the heart of every story of suspense, thrills, and peril…
…are the hearts of the characters.
-C.B. Shutt

Meet Author C.B. (Chas) Shutt
Chas Shutt is a physician who has practiced medicine in the field of women’s health for many years. For nearly as many of those years, he has also followed his passion of writing fiction. His career led him to live and practice medicine in many locales . . . from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the Appalachian Mountains, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the islands if Kaui and Maui in Hawaii, to name a few. The diversity and vibrant richness of the regions, people, cultures, and their histories has influenced, inspired, and infused his writing.

BLINDSIDED
Lies are told. Lives are lost. It’s a helluva time to fall in love.

Twenty-five years after a fire devastates the small coastal town of Good Haven, Georgia, a nationally-renowned Chicago surgeon returns to his hometown roots, uncovering a trail of murders connected to the true cause of the tragedy that night, all related to the life of one young woman—with whom he unexpectedly finds himself falling in love.
“Life goes sideways when you are blindsided. Flips entirely upside down when it happens twice. In a row. And it brought me full circle. Back to where I had started.
And I knew . . . I was finally home.”
—Win Devereaux, M.D., protagonist in BLINDSIDED

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