Reviewed by Charlotte.
This is an American FBI based romantic suspense. We’re given a female agent - a
complex stalker, and a classic covert romance budding between fellow agents. Thankfully
that’s not all the author has given the reader. The heroine, Jess, has
emotional problems linked to her past. Her love interest, Tom, similarly has a past
he would rather forget. Neither reveals their covert feelings for one another, and
I rather liked the way the author enlightens the reader to their innermost
thoughts. This could easily have turned into a tired old cliché plot of agents
shooting their way through crisis after crisis, then falling in love and
straight off to bed. Ms Ford, though, luckily spins a little magic into her
story with a dead agent brought back to life. And so the plot thickens. But who
is watching Jess besides a dead agent, and who is stalking her? The
more Jess puzzles over gathered evidence the more she fears the outcome. What
is worse, the killer knows her name. Ordered off the case, Jess retreats to a safe
haven. Jess is far from safe. Tom is far from safe. And the hero of the day is
far from the expected hero. Well done Ms Ford for putting a jolly good twist in
this tale. As a debut novelist I sense Ms Ford’s writing will grow with each new
book she undertakes to write.
