Lacy Telchev feels lost and very alone. After burying her husband, Igor, whom she loved deeply, she can't help but feel responsible for the distance that had been between them, in the past few years. Igor, a writer, had become withdrawn and obsessed with his latest manuscript, and their marriage had turned into a roommate relationship. And now it was too late to change it. With her friends beside her, Lacy hopes to move on with life. But when her home is ransacked, and she is ran off the road by two suspicious characters, Lacy is soon drawn into a mystery, worthy of the movies. For it seems that Igor's latest manuscript is dangerous to many influential people, and they will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.

But Igor knew this day would come, and that he would need Lacy to follow the clues, and find the missing manuscript, chapter by chapter. Leaving her aliases, money and the help of two of his friends, Lacy vows to do this one last thing for her husband. But as Lacy travels from one country to another, she begins to realise that she didn't really know Igor at all. At least she can depend on Max, a friend of a friend, who came to her rescue on numerous occasions. And as time passes, her feelings for Max grow far beyond friendship. But as the danger increases, Lacy soon recognises that this is not a game, and that maybe she was foolish to trust anyone. Will Lacy find the missing pieces and reach the manuscript before Igor's enemies? And when the whole truth emerges, will Lacy ever be able to trust again?

ROMANTIC ROAD by Blair McDowell is a fast paced, captivating, dangerous adventure, that transports the reader effortlessly from Vienna, to Budapest, to New York. The plot really appealed to me as I love a good mystery, and the relationship between Lacy and Max was brilliantly handled, as I found myself second guessing whether he could be trusted, over and over again. I enjoyed the character of Lacy as she dealt with her life crumbling around her, with spirit and determination.

ROMANTIC ROAD by Blair McDowell is an action packed romance that I thoroughly enjoyed.