About the book: Ex-FBI agent Riley Scott lives each day with the scars of her former career. After the murder of her husband and the recent attempt on her own life by the Russian mafia, her heart is irrevocably broken. Agate Island seems like the perfect place to begin building a new future for herself and her teenage son, yet even before the ferry docks at their new home, Riley realizes there will be no escape for her. There, on the boat, is mafia boss Maksimillian Petruso—the man who took everything from her. The man she killed.
Matthew Taggart knows who Riley is and understands her reaction to his resemblance to Maksimillian Petruso. But Matthew is nothing like his estranged criminal father. So far, he has been able to hide from that evil world. However, he's afraid Riley's appearance on the island may lead his family's mafia connections to his doorstep. After all, she is the agent who took down his father. Matthew needs to leave town. Fast. Unfortunately, when the family wants to find him, there is nowhere he can hide. Now he and Riley are thrown together in a dangerous connection, and learning to trust each other is their only hope of survival.
My review: Okay, I have to just admit. I read this book in one afternoon. The plot of this one grabbed me and I really didn't want to put it down until I'd finished and found out the ending.
Riley is such a great character. I love her tenacity. She goes after what she knows will protect her family and she doesn't stop until she's taken care of the problem. That gets her into all sorts of bad situations. Most of them, you actually just see as flashbacks in this book. I'm kind of amazed at all she was able to do with her health issues she has. I loved the way she was such a great mom to Jeremiah, even though he thought she was ruining his whole life. She's one of my favorite characters I've read about recently.
Then there's Matthew. I loved that you see the story through his eyes as well. It really gives a full picture of everything going on. Matthew is a single dad, trying to do his best to be both parents to his daughter, Aleksa. I loved the strength of his character, he had to do hard things when his life and Aleksa's were on the line.
The plot of this one is crazy! There's always something crazy going on. Always someone trying to kill the main characters. It really hooks you and pulls you in.
And it doesn't hurt anything that the plot starts out in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. The San Juan Islands are somewhere we went on our vacation last summer, so I had no problem picturing their beauty and imagining being there again.
I loved everything about this book! You should check it out!
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Purchase links: Amazon - Deseret Book
About the author: Kathi Oram Peterson loves to write edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense and young adult time travel. The constant thread she sews in both genres is faith in a higher power. She works hard to entertain her readers with clean, uplifting stories. Her path to publication took a detour as she raised three children. During those years, Kathi read all the how-to books on writing that she could find. When her last child graduated high school, she went back to college and earned her BA in English. She was fortunate to do an internship for the University of Utah's Continuum magazine, where she learned to edit and write articles in the "real" world. Shortly after graduation, she was hired by a curriculum publisher to write and edit concept and biography books for children. She worked shoulder to shoulder with artists and computer programmers as she watched her children's stories come to life. But the desire to write full-length novels called to her. Leaving the workforce, she devoted herself to writing fiction. You can contact Kathi through her website, www.kathiorampeterson.com, and her blog, www.kathiswritingnook.com.
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