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Lone Star Intrigue

Lone Star Intrigue, February 2011
Texas Heat/Texas Pursuit
by Debra White Smith

Avon Inspire
Featuring: Sonny; Jack; Charli
464 pages
ISBN: 0062049445
EAN: 9780062049445
Paperback
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"Skillfully Plotted Inspirational Romantic Suspense"

Fresh Fiction Review

Lone Star Intrigue
Debra White Smith

Reviewed by Diana Troldahl
Posted June 5, 2011

Romance

Two sweet and sultry inspirational love stories from one of the genre's most beloved authors. Texas Heat When Jack Mansfield dreamt of connecting with his former love, it was not the image of him arresting her for embezzlement, and taking her away to the sound of her daughter's sobs. His gut tells him Charli is innocent but time is running out to find the true criminal. The closer Jack gets to solving the crime, the more danger Charli is in, as the embezzler will stop at nothing to keep his own skin out of jail. Texas Pursuit Sonny Mansfield has always ducked his brothers' hints about attending church with them, he figured he didn't owe God much of anything after what God let happen so many years ago. He was perfectly content with his life as a private investigator, tracking down wrong-doers for those who wished to bring them to some sort of justice. But his most recent case seems different. The woman he tracked seems perfectly normal and is a good mother to her special needs son. When he gave his client her information the man's reaction was off, almost obsessed. The glint in the man's eye boded ill for Tanya and the life she has built for her son. Sonny broke his own rules and approached Tanya as a renter, anything to remain close enough to be certain he hadn't made the second biggest mistake in his life.

Debra White Smith writes suspenseful, exciting, and inspirational romances with plenty of physical attraction between the two main characters without crossing the line past the borders of the inspirational genre. She manages to keep the stories God-centered without being at all preachy. The main characters' personal growth toward a Christian- centered spirituality is handled deftly and grows naturally from the events in her skillfully-plotted tales. The book also contains questions for discussion after each story making this volume a fine choice for a book club.

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SUMMARY

The story takes place in the small town of Bullard, Texas, where the Mansfield brothers seem to have everything in order...except for their love lives. Jack is the lonely police chief still pining over Charli, his college girlfriend. Younger brother Sonny keeps busy on the road as a private investigator, and a secret from his past prevents him from finding someone to settle down with. But all that is about to change... In the first book of the series, Texas Heat, Charli is wrongly accused of a terrible crime. Now Jack must arrest the one woman he's ever loved and risk everything to prove her innocence and save her life. In the second book of the series, Texas Pursuit, a single mother is a target of a relentless stalker - and Sonny finds himself both the only man who can protect her and the one who inadvertently leads danger back into her world. Page-turning novels of romance and suspense, the Lone Star Intrigue series will give you faith in the power of love, and remind you that having faith in God who redeems our mistakes is the greatest love story of all.


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