"Exhilarating romantic suspense"

In Colorado, her mom arrives to see her vanished daughter Alaina Chancellor for the first time in nine years. Not long afterward, Alaina's former lover and now brother-in- law shows up and tries to rape her, but her mother intercedes. As Alaina flees again with her son Jonah (from her "interlude a decade ago with her former lover), her mother dies in a car crash.

Five years later in Chicago, private detective Mitch Kane, retained by Alaina's brother-in-law, easily finds her; he believes she is a nasty piece of work for running off with his employer's son. However, he begins to change his mind as he observes the love between mother and child and when incidents occur to innocent people. He realizes that his client played him for a fool using his own feelings towards his ex-wife as a tool. As Mitch falls in love with Alaina, he vows to keep her and her son safe from a killer wolf in lamb's clothing.

This is an exhilarating romantic suspense starring a wonderful female protagonist and a born again admirer of the courage of women. The story line is fast-paced and loaded with action especially as thugs do their dirty assignments. Though how no one could see past the outer shell to the ambitious violent killer inside even for a clever sociopath villain, fans of taut thrillers will want to read FOUND WAITING.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 16, 2004

Summary

Detective Mitch Kane is hired by millionaire Layton Keller to find the son he's never known and the woman who took the boy fourteen years ago. But when Mitch finds them, he discovers that Alaina Chancellor isn't anything like he expected. Before he knows it, he's protecting her from determined hit men and trying to help her get her son back—but Alaina has been terribly hurt by a man in the past, and she doesn't trust anyone easily, especially a detective hired by her son's father. Unfortunately, she has no choice but to rely on Mitch, and as they race to save Jonah from his father, they discover that both their lives have been found wanting.