"Mills shines once again!"

Jenna Mills has to be one of the best writers rising in the romance genre today. She has a way of creating characters that come alive. She uses plots and emotions with razor edge precision luring the reader to a breathless involvement without ever being manipulative. Good writers craft prose to push buttons in their readers. The truly talented ones do something more. They "see" their books like a movie in their head and use the prose, the magic of words, to gift the readers with the same experience. You don't read Mills' books you SEE the book inside your head. Jenna Mills dances in fire and invites the reader to join her. I won't give away a lot of the plot in this, since there are other books in the series, and you should ﷯discover﷯ the strong and unusual plot line yourself.

Danielle Caldwell, a working-mother raising her five-year- old son, hears words no mother wants to hear "your son has been kidnapped." After she receives the shattering news, she recalls the darkly handsome man in the lobby of the inn where she works, remembers one of the employees saying he was asking about her. Putting two and two together, she assumes the man has something to do with her missing son. Gutsy Danielle pulls a derringer on him and demands information. When he cannot deliver that and says he is FBI, she demands he leave her alone. The warning the kidnappers gave her was to keep the police out of it or else.

Leaving her alone is the one thing he cannot do. Liam Brooks is a hunter. He has long been tracking a killer called Titan. It has cost him nearly everything. It cost him the life of his wife because when Liam got too close to trapping Titan, the killer punished Liam. Now Liam is a man obsessed with vengeance. Only Titan's trail has grown cold, years cold. So when he received a tip about Danielle Caldwell, he defies his superiors and rushes after the trail of the ghostly Titan.

Danielle knows she should not trust FBI agent, a man with a too close ﷯﷯relationship﷯﷯ with the bottle, but she has no one else to turn to when the horror hits. Why would someone kidnap the son of a working woman, a woman of little importance? Titan wants something from her, but what? Reluctantly, she has little choice to trust Liam. Only, she is unprepared for the instant emotional bond. She sees this man has been deeply hurt. Worse, the ﷯﷯sex﷯﷯ual attraction is a complication she could well do without.

There is a "structured feel" because this is a series where the various writers must work with in a theme, however Mills takes the line and creates her own feel. That she can write within a preformed outline only shows how strong a writer she is. It's easy to write a story that comes to your with the inspiration of a Muse. It is harder to take you talent and summer the magic to fit within another dictates. Mills crafts a dark, sinister tale, with strongly drawn characters that, once again, pull the reader along, make you care. It just does not get any better than this.

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted September 29, 2004

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Summary

Subject: Danielle Caldwell, single mother
Family history: With her triplet siblings she shares Gypsy blood—and psychic powers
Deepest secret: She can tell no one her son was kidnapped—if she wants him back alive

Danielle Caldwell tried desperately to hide her terror from the FBI special agent whose muscled frame darkened her doorstep just hours after Alex disappeared. Liam Brooks claimed he'd been led to her by Titan, the sinister criminal he'd been tracking. He recognized the fear in her eyes and knew only he could wrest her son from Titan's grasp. Though Danielle told herself she needed Liam's help, her feelings ran deeper. His gaze, his touch, awoke emotions she'd thought long buried, made her want him—body and soul. But all the while, evil was watching, waiting for the right moment....