"An intriguing read!"

I have always equated Delores Fossen with a guaranteed good read and she's yet to let me down. With that being said, I eagerly dug into her latest Intrigue.

Combat Rescue officer Rafe McQuade and his team rescue Annie Caldwell from Monte De Leon and he promptly asks her to marry him as soon as they get back to the States. Annie makes it back safely but Rafe is caught. He finally escapes and makes it back to Annie but at their hastily put together wedding, Annie instinctively knows that this is not the Rafe she's fallen in love with but she can't quite put her finger on what's wrong.

As Rafe and Annie are getting ready to go to their reception, suddenly a gunman starts shooting in the church. He's captured but he's severely injured and dies before Rafe and his team can learn why he was sent and who he was sent to kill.

Rafe and Annie are taken to a supposedly safe place and Annie asks Rafe a few pointed questions that he gets wrong so she demands he tell her just what they've done to the real Rafe as he's not him. Rafe finally breaks down and tells Annie that when he was captured he was injected with a truth serum that gave him temporary amnesia and he couldn't remember the last year of his life, which meant he could barely remember Annie as they've only known each other a little over a year.

Annie wants Rafe back, the Rafe that she fell in love with and the one who fathered her baby. She knows all she can do is wait and see if Rafe gets his memory back and if he does will he still feel for her the depth of feeling she feels for him?

Delores Fossen takes us on a wild ride with this one. I thoroughly enjoyed each and every word. Her Intrigues are spell binding and are generally ones I have a hard time putting down. As always, I eagerly await her next book!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 26, 2003

Summary

Anna Caldwell hadn't planned on spending her honeymoon dodging bullets in the Texas chaparral with a husband who couldn't even remember her! Or their unborn child...

Combat Rescue Officer Rafe McQuade had saved Anna's life, fathered the baby she carried and asked her to be his bride... but had no recollection of any of it. And unless he could unlock the secrets in his mind, rogue terrorists had no qualms about using his pregnant wife as a bargaining chip.

Rafe didn't need his memory to know how much Anna — and his family — meant to him; he did need everything in his power to complete the most dangerous mission of his career. Lives, and his marriage, were on the line....