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On the Run

On the Run, January 2006
by Iris Johansen

Bantam
Featuring: Grace Archer; Jake Kilmer
352 pages
ISBN: 0553803433
Hardcover
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Fresh Fiction Review

On the Run
Iris Johansen

Reviewed by Faye McMichael
Posted February 5, 2006

Romance Suspense

Grace Archer and her daughter Frankie have been in hiding for the last 8 years on an Alabama horse farm. Grace is a single mom who is an exceptional horse trainer and some say has the ability to talk to horses. Frankie is an eight year old prodigy with a love of horses all her own.

Grace is an ex CIA agent who has been in hiding from and mid-eastern mad man named Marvot because he needs her help to tame "the pair" and recover a buried treasure. When Marvot locates Grace in Alabama she and Frankie's lives are turned upside down again. Marvot will do anything and kill anyone who gets in his way including Frankie.

The CIA refuses to help Grace relocate again -- they want to use her and Frankie as bait to trap Marvot. Jake Kilmer arrives and offers his help to protect them and Grace has no choice but to accept his help. However, because Jake trained Grace as an agent and they became lovers and now she doesn't know if she can trust him again.

This book started off with a bang, literally and never slowed down. This is one of the best books I have read by Ms. Johansen. The villain is evil, the sexual tension is electrifying and the suspense is riveting. The book is well worth the read.

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SUMMARY

The picture was a warning: they’d found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn’t come–and knew in her heart that it would.

She’d taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.

A woman with a highly classified past, Grace had never run from anything in her life. But as a mother, she’d do anything to keep eight-year-old Frankie safe. Now that safe world has been shattered, and a ferocious hunter has been unleashed. Suddenly the agency that owed Grace its gratitiude and protection has abandoned her and only one ally remains: a man even more dangerous than her worst enemy.

She hasn’t set eyes on Jake Kilmer since the catastrophic events of eight years ago. Now he’s asking Grace to trust him with the one thing more precious to her than life itself. But with a ruthless criminal kingpin determined to make her pay for the past, her and her daughter’s lives on the line, and time running out, she just may have to put her faith in a man who she believes has already betrayed her once.


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