As a U.S. Intelligence officer, Jordan Weiss has seen her
share of death and violence. However, the one death that
has always haunted her is the drowning of her college
boyfriend, Jared Short, at Cambridge years before.
Devastated by the sudden loss, Jordan left England and has
never returned -- until now. After receiving a letter from
her friend Sarah, who is seriously ill and lives in London,
Jordan puts her own pain aside. She takes an assignment to
assist the British government and heads across the
Atlantic, determined to face the ghosts of her past.
One of those ghosts turns out to be the very-much-alive
Chris Bannister, who was a good friend of Jared's and
Jordan's. Although Jared's death was generally thought to
be an accident, Chris now believes Jared was killed because
of something he had discovered in his doctorate research.
He wants Jordan, with her experience and connections, to
help him find out what really happened. Jordan reluctantly
agrees, although she's also been assigned a complicated
case as part of her new job responsibilities: tracing
possible corporate ties to the Albanian mob. As she delves
into both investigations, Jordan discovers some bizarre
connections and coincidences. Strange as it seems, she
starts to wonder if Jared's death is somehow linked to her
current case. If so, it would indeed appear that he was
murdered for something he knew.
Getting to the truth takes on even greater urgency after a
key person in the investigation vanishes and then Sarah is
attacked. With her own life in danger, no longer sure who
she can trust, Jordan digs through the long-buried pain in
her past in a desperate search for answers -- hoping to
bring criminals to justice and to finally put her personal
demons to rest...if she can stay alive long enough, that
is.
This book pulled me in from the start and never let go. The
details about Cambridge and London bring those locations to
vibrant life and the tension ratchets a little higher with
each chapter. I enjoyed following Jordan's and Jared's
relationship via college flashbacks as much as I enjoyed
navigating through the twists and turns of the modern-day
investigation. Like Jordan, I found myself constantly
wondering just who the "good guys" were. With intrigue,
romance and action, this book is a thrill ride from start
to finish.
A RICH AND STARTLING NOVEL ABOUT A WOMAN WHO MUST FACE A
PAST SHE’D RATHER FORGET IN ORDER TO UNCOVER A DANGEROUS
LEGACY THAT THREATENS HER FUTURE
Ten years
ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan
Weiss’s idyllic experience as a graduate student at
Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend Jared drowned in
the River Cam. She swore she’d never go back—until a
terminally ill friend asks her to return. Jordan attempts to
settle into her new life, taking on an urgent mission beside
rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Just when she thinks there’s
hope for a fresh start, a former college classmate tells her
that Jared’s death was not an accident—he was murdered.
Jordan quickly learns that Jared’s research into
World War II had uncovered a shameful secret, but powerful
forces with everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep
the past buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril
as she struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously
close to home, the truth that threatens to change her life
forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting for.
Fast-paced and impossible to put down, Almost Home
establishes Pam Jenoff as one of the best new writers in
the genre.
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