"He will do all he can to protect and serve ... since she has his heart"
Reviewed by Annetta Sweetko
Posted July 22, 2013
Romance Suspense
In THE ACCUSED Alaina LeBeau worked for a prestigious law
firm and thought she was up for a partnership but was
passed over. This is the end of the rope for her, she
already feels awful when a criminal case she won turns out
terribly wrong. She turns in her resignation.
In the midst of this she receives a letter concerning her
stepfather, Trenton Purcell. He has passed away and now all
that was her mother's would be going to her and her two
sisters with stipulations that each girl must live in the
house for two weeks within a year. When Alaina was seven
her mother died and Purcell packed them all off to distant
relatives and she hasn't seen her sisters since. It seems
to be the perfect time to go back to the little bayou
village of Calais. She could live there awhile and figure
out what to do with her life.
Carter Trahan, sheriff of Calais, has been appointed to
baby-sit the heiresses during their two week stay. He isn't
happy about it but he only has to make sure that they do
not stay outside of the estate for more than 24 hours at a
time or the two weeks start over. He has no idea that he
was about to be drawn into something he never expects. She
is gorgeous, feisty, smart and sexy as all get out.
And when things start happening to scare her and someone
gets into the house and causes her to be hurt, he goes on
high alert. Is it someone that is furious when they found
Purcell didn't leave them an inheritance? Or does it have
something to do with her law work?
THE ACCUSED is a nonstop thrill ride in the fantastic world
of Mystere Bayou in Louisiana. The characters are realistic
and perfect for each other, even though at first they can't
see it. The heat of the romance between them is immediate
but both are rather resistant for different reasons. The
secondary characters are seamlessly added touches to the
atmosphere of the plot. I try as I read a mystery to figure
out who the bad guys are but with this one every time I
thought I had it, author Jana DeLeon tossed in a curve. I
can't wait for the next installment of Mystere Parish:
Family Inheritance series.
SUMMARY
USA TODAY bestselling author Jana DeLeon has a new
trilogy-Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance After working as a cop in New Orleans, Carter Trahan is back
in Mystere Parish, where his latest assignment seems like a
joke: making sure Alaina LeBeau lives in her childhood home
for two weeks to comply with her mother's will. But soon the
sexy sheriff isn't laughing. Someone-or something-is
stalking the beautiful defense lawyer, turning her
once-grand mansion into a house of horrors. But as he searches for the truth, Carter must face ghosts of
his own past lurking in the bayou. Most troubling of all is
his unprofessional attraction to the woman he's protecting,
as Alaina's allure haunts him as no specter ever could....
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