Grace Archer and her daughter Frankie have been in hiding for the last 8 years on an Alabama horse farm. Grace is a single mom who is an exceptional horse trainer and some say has the ability to talk to horses. Frankie is an eight year old prodigy with a love of horses all her own.
Grace is an ex CIA agent who has been in hiding from and mid-eastern mad man named Marvot because he needs her help to tame "the pair" and recover a buried treasure. When Marvot locates Grace in Alabama she and Frankie's lives are turned upside down again. Marvot will do anything and kill anyone who gets in his way including Frankie.
The CIA refuses to help Grace relocate again -- they want to use her and Frankie as bait to trap Marvot. Jake Kilmer arrives and offers his help to protect them and Grace has no choice but to accept his help. However, because Jake trained Grace as an agent and they became lovers and now she doesn't know if she can trust him again.
This book started off with a bang, literally and never slowed down. This is one of the best books I have read by Ms. Johansen. The villain is evil, the sexual tension is electrifying and the suspense is riveting. The book is well worth the read.
The picture was a warning: theyβd found her. For eight
years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldnβt comeβand knew
in her heart that it would.
Sheβd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama
horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of
the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly
follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.
A woman with a highly classified past, Grace had never run
from anything in her life. But as a mother, sheβd do
anything to keep eight-year-old Frankie safe. Now that
safe world has been shattered, and a ferocious hunter has
been unleashed. Suddenly the agency that owed Grace its
gratitiude and protection has abandoned her and only one
ally remains: a man even more dangerous than her worst
enemy.
She hasnβt set eyes on Jake Kilmer since the catastrophic
events of eight years ago. Now heβs asking Grace to trust
him with the one thing more precious to her than life
itself. But with a ruthless criminal kingpin determined to
make her pay for the past, her and her daughterβs lives on
the line, and time running out, she just may have to put
her faith in a man who she believes has already betrayed
her once.
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