"You never know when you're going to need a favor..."
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted April 8, 2008
Romance Suspense
Just what was Breed Grayhawk thinking having the hottest sex
with a stranger he meets at a bar â€" whose name is Grace
Smith. Yeah right. Okay well maybe he wasn’t exactly
thinking at all. But Grace had the advantage. She knew who
Breed was and set up this meeting â€" although the sex was
definitely a bonus â€" so that he would owe her a favor when
called upon. While he is still recovering from this lapse of
judgment he discovers that Grace is a convicted double
murderer who is now wanted for parole violation. Her
policeman father and her stepmother were murdered and Grace
was sentenced as a juvenile. The abuse she and her
stepmother suffered at the hands of her abusive father was
considered more than sufficient as a motive for the murder.
Grace was shattered by the death of her stepmother who so
often put herself in harms way to protect Grace but the
authorities weren’t even looking for any other suspect and
used Grace’s grandmother to convince her to plead guilty and
put herself at the mercy of the court. So now having served
her sentence her mission was to find the real murderer from
a list of possibilities that she developed from her fathers
unsolved homicides. The last name on her list was none other
then Breed’s boss - FBI agent Vincent Harkness.
Next step is to burgle Harkness' house to look for any clues
that could tie him to the murders. But Grace has no idea
what she is going to uncover and what peril her discovery
puts her in. There is something very sinister going on in
the Harkness family and now she has endangered herself. Time
to call in that favor. Breed’s allegiance is to Harkness who has mentored and
supported him all these years. He also questions Grace’s
motives and methods until certain undeniable facts start to
surface. He now has to make a decision that will determine
his future. A decision that puts him on the wrong side of
all he believes in... or does it. After reading this latest book by Joan Johnston I did
something I’ve never done before. I sent an email telling
her to basically hurry up with the next installment. There
are several intertwined stories in A STRANGER'S GAME and
each is so compelling it could be it’s own book. This is
definitely the best in the Bitter Creek series and if you
are a Johnston fan you won’t be able to put it down. And if
you’re not yet a fan it will make you one--of this I am
sure. The passionate relationship of Grace and Breed
develops slowly throughout and leaves you hungry for more.
The good cop â€" bad cop twists and turns will have you
clenching your teeth in anger. What more can you ask for.
Johnston delivers.
SUMMARY
From New York Times bestselling author Joan
Johnston comes a dazzling new Bitter Creek novel that
features all of the passion and intrigue in Texas high
society that her readers know and love, mixed with an
explosive, spine-tingling tale of murder, wrongful
imprisonment, and a woman who counts no cost too high to
see a killer brought to justice. FBI Special Agent
Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a
stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover
early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye
Finkel -- and she's a convicted double murderer who broke
her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's his prime
suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S.
president. Grace Caldwell is determined to find the
killer who framed her for the murder of her father and
stepmother -- and make him pay. She burgles the home of
her #1 suspect and nets a surprising haul: a hot-pink,
silk-covered diary -- the record of a sex-addicted wife's
adventures -- which suggests that Grace's #1 suspect isa
serial killer. But her theft has been caught on tape, and
the man she's been chasing becomes the hunter...with Grace
as his prey. With just five days until the president
arrives in Austin, Texas, the last thing the FBI needs is
a serial killer on the prowl...and a terrorist suspect who
will stop at nothing to clear her name. The clock is
ticking down, and Agent Grayhawk is racing time to
discover the truth about his dangerous lover.
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