Liliana Vela is on the run after escaping from some men. As she makes for a road and follows it to a service station, she knows the abductors might be in pursuit. DANGEROUS BEAUTY deals with the sensitive topic of human trafficking.   Sadly, it’s a fact that people are moved across borders and forced to work against their will. In Liliana’s case, the evil men are trafficking her with other women across the Mexican border to America. Life was quiet in her Mexican village, but the gang killed the rest of her family. Now she’s in America illegally, and if she’s sent back, she’ll just be captured again.   A chance encounter at the service station with Meric Toledan is the start of a better life. He is a prosperous man who fights traffickers, and seeing men lying in wait for Liliana, he deals with them and calls the police. To aid the heroic survivor, he offers her a marriage of convenience. This may be one of the strangest reasons for getting married, but the scared young woman, who has only a smattering of English words, agrees.   This romantic suspense story often refers to abuse and sex trafficking, but the main characters stay chaste, so technically it’s clean. There is violence on the page. Readers can make up their minds if the tale would suit them. There is a lull in the action as Liliana has to learn English and adjust to her new (quite lonely) lifestyle, but she can never really relax. Josh and Carl, the paid creeps who were transporting women, might get out of jail, and there might be others from their gang. Liliana is the classic person who knows too much.     Meric is something of an enigma who acts kindly but doesn’t say much, and doesn’t know what a woman would find to do all day other than shop (there are staff members to do the rest). Whereas Liliana obviously has not had anyone to do housework for her.   We should know some self-defence and be aware of how to help people who are in a bad situation. Even knowing what number to phone could help a survivor. Melissa Koslin ratchets up the tension as the story continues, and her DANGEROUS BEAUTY gains the reader’s admiration.