Robert and Julie Smith's daughter, Neveah, has gone
missing. Neveah has been known to be a little wild, and
Sheriff Zach Owens, upon listening to the parents,
suspects that maybe Neveah doesn't want to be found. Not
long after, Zach gets a call that someone found the dead
body of a naked girl. But it is not Neveah's. In Clear
Springs, Montana, is located the Elysia commune, which is
more a cult than the "back to nature" community they
profess to be. Martha Collins is the leader of the cult,
and she never could accept that her daughter Eden would
leave, but leave Eden did, with the idea of never going
back. Eden became an FBI agent, not surprisingly working
the cult division. When Eden receives an untraceable
email with enclosed pictures of the murdered girl in
Clear Springs, she reluctantly returns to the place Eden
never called home. Eden saw the tattoos on the body, she
knows the Elysians are involved, because Eden has the
same tattoos...
THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER kicks off the new Hidden Sins
series, which is a departure in style for Katee
Robert, as the author tries her hand as romantic
suspense. I'm very difficult to please when it comes to
this genre, and I must admit that THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER is
a bit of a miss for me. While the premise is interesting,
the sudden attraction between Zach and Eden seemed to
come out of nowhere, as if they bonded after talking
about their respective nightmares, but then again, I
wouldn't know. I do love my thrillers, and I enjoy a good
romantic suspense, but in this case I felt the few
romantic interludes intruded on the story, which is a bit
odd because Ms. Robert excels at writing romance, which I
enjoy tremendously.
Eden never wanted to go back where she grew up, and never
wanted to be even near her mother again, and boy was she
right about that. Eden, a consummate FBI agent, seemed to
unravel when in her dreadful mother's presence. As for
"who did it", it was quite unexpected and not entirely
convincing, in my opinion. THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER is well
written and evenly paced; it makes for a nice, quick read
for a lazy afternoon.
Growing up in a small town isn’t easy, especially when
you’re the daughter of a local cult leader. Ten years ago,
Eden Collins left Clear Springs, Montana, and never once
looked back. But when the bodies of murdered young women
surface, their corpses violated and marked with tattoos worn
by her mother’s followers, Eden, now an FBI agent, can’t
turn a blind eye. To catch the killer, she’s going to have
to return to the fold.
Sheriff Zach Owens isn’t comfortable putting Eden in danger,
even if she is an elite agent. And he certainly wasn’t
expecting to be so attracted to her. As calm and cool as she
appears, he knows this can’t be a happy homecoming. Zach
wants to protect her—from her mother, the cult, and the evil
that lurks behind its locked gates. But Eden is his only key
to the tight-lipped group, and she may just be closer to the
killer than either one of them suspects…
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