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"Chilling romantic suspense."
Reviewed by Sabrina Marino
Posted October 20, 2004

Susan Maddox suffers the consequences of a husband gone missing from a small Texas town with the banker's wife and a whole lot of money. Susan's neighbors just don't treat her the same way anymore, as if she was the one who took all the money and murdered the two. The Read more...

"Exciting romantic suspense"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 26, 2004

Though her husband Brian ran off with the banker's wife Jessica Beecher, everyone in the small southwest Texas community blames schoolteacher Susan Maddox while providing casseroles and sympathy for the other cuckolded spouse, Hal. Some feel Susan killed her spouse although the runaways were sighted in New Mexico. Read more...

"A romantic suspense that is heavy on suspense!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted November 1, 2004

Hang on to your seats and get ready for a wild ride with this excellent romantic suspense. Nothing is as it seems and the twists and turns just get more and more tangled with each page. Susan Maddox cannot believe that she's found an old hard drive of her gone-missing Read more...

Summary

West Texas gossip paints every story a more interesting shade, especially when a married man goes missing with a small-town banker's wife and a fortune in fraudulent loans. Susan Maddox is tired of feeling like an abandoned woman, and even angrier when the neighbors act as if she's the one getting away with murder. Maybe her handsome-as-sin, bad- boy brother-in-law wasn't the smartest choice of ally, but who else could she trust to recover damning information from her husband's crashed hard drive? Who else is there to pick up the pieces when intruders set fire to her home, a truck runs her off the road, and a trail of dead men stops her cold? Who else can help her uncover a . . . fatal error.