"exhilarating romantic suspense"

After an intruder enters her home, Holly Mathews manages to kill him. However, she realizes the culprit needed help to break in as he disabled the security system by punching in the code and had the front door key. Concluding that her husband Randolph wants her dead, Holly flees her home taking their son Mikey with her. Holly relocates under the guise of a widow with a son Harry (for Potter), calling herself Elizabeth Baker in Brisbee, Arizona.

Her dying mother informs Meredith Rawson that she has a half-sister, who she wants treated right by splitting a trust fund between them. Meredith confronts her father who is in denial. He, in turn, calls someone to warn them what occurred, but is told to fix it or else. Now someone wants Meredith dead with only Detective Gage Gaynor who is attracted to her and is working a cold murder case that ties to her powerful family, keeping her safe.

COLD TARGET is an exhilarating romantic suspense with ever increasing tension as the half-siblings who did not know the other existed are in danger from powerful interests. Though the climax seems shaky, the story line moves at full speed so that the audience has quite a ride while waiting to learn the truth. The romance takes a somewhat back seat, yet is not neglected as readers receive an entertaining action-packed thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 8, 2003

Summary

In the dead of night, Holly Matthews—the wife of a New Orleans senator—takes her son and flees for her life. At her mother's deathbed, Attorney Merdith Rawson learns she has a sister and vows to find her.

As Holly and her son try to start over in Bisbee, Arizona, Merdith begins a desperate search for her long-lost sister. Almost instantly, she is attacked and her home ransacked as long buried secrets threaten her life and new hope for Holly and her son.

Meredith will not stop probing even as death stalks her and those around her. Her only help comes from Detective Gage Gaynor, a cynical officer with a checkered past who has an agenda of his own and a deep distrust of her powerful family. Is he a part of evil around her? Or is he a target as well?