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Trumped Up Charges

Trumped Up Charges, May 2013
Big "D" Dads : The Daltons
by Joanna Wayne

Harlequin Intrigue
Featuring: Hadley O'Sullivan; Adam Dalton
224 pages
ISBN: 0373696930
EAN: 9780373696932
Kindle: B00BAT1PXG
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"A high speed, wonderfully intriguing story that grabs the heart"

Fresh Fiction Review

Trumped Up Charges
Joanna Wayne

Reviewed by Annetta Sweetko
Posted May 28, 2013

Romance Suspense

Adam Dalton arrives back in the Dallas area to hear the reading of his long absent father's will only to get more than one surprise. The first being his father isn't dead, he just wanted to see all of his "lost" children. In the middle of that he gets a call from his mother saying that Hadley O'Sullivan, his former fiancée's twin daughters have been kidnapped. He soon finds he is protecting her from TRUMPED UP CHARGES. The last person Hadley O'Sullivan expected to see at her door was Adam. They were engaged for a short time when he went to Afghanistan but then she got a letter saying he found someone else. But for whatever reason he is there, there's just so much to deal with ...her daughters Lila and Lacy are missing, her mother is in the hospital having a tumor removed and Det. Shelton Lane seems hard pressed to prove she was the reason her twin daughters are gone... any support from whatever source is a good thing right now. But then again there are a lot of secrets on both sides that just might have to come out before they can work together to find her babies. TRUMPED UP CHARGES takes off at high speed and doesn't slow down until the last word. There are a lot of dark twists and intriguing secrets that come flooding out as the reader tries to figure out who the bad guy might be and how they will be caught. There are side storylines that fill out the secondary characters and add a lot of drama to the well written main story. Joanna Wayne writes a wonderfully intriguing romance with a lot of emotional ups and downs that makes you feel for Adam and Hadley, especially when all the truths come out. This is the authors Big "D" Dads: The Daltons series and I hope she finds a couple more Dalton's to write about.

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SUMMARY

When a mother's love meets a father's instinct… Ex-marine Adam Dalton once dreamed of a life with Hadley O'Sullivan, but war and a near-fatal injury cost him dearly. Now he returns to Dallas to discover the unthinkable—Hadley is the prime suspect in the disappearance of her twin baby girls…the daughters he never knew he had. Beyond Hadley's terror of having her children kidnapped is the shock of seeing Adam. Yes, she had kept him from his daughters, but now, when he insists they work together as a united front, she knows she is still in love with him. Despite their past, finding their children is their only hope to finally becoming a family—if time doesn't run out first.


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