"Fast paced edgy mystery"

Grace Archer is on the run with her daughter, Frankie. She thought they would be safe on a small horse farm in Alabama, but this killer will follow her to the ends of the earth if need be.

Grace has a highly classified past and she has never run from anything, but as a mother she has to. Now the agency that has helped hide Grace and Frankie for eighth years has abandoned her. Now she has no choice but to turn to the man she hasn't seen for eight years, Frankie's father and her ex-boss. She will need all the help she can get to save both herself and her daughter from a ruthless criminal who wants Grace to tame "The Pair". A pair of snow white horses, that were trained by their dead owner to locate a great treasure he buried in the desert. This criminal kingpin wants that treasure at all costs. He has the money and the resources to achieve his goal. Only Grace can keep it from him.

Ms. Johansen doesn't let her readers down. Once again she has given us the pleasure of reading a edgy suspenseful story. In a word, "Wonderful".

Reviewed by Judith Saul
Posted January 16, 2006

Summary

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen is back with an electrifying new thriller that pits a mother and daughter against a relentless killer who takes no prisoners, accepts no surrender, and leaves his intended victims with no choice but one: to run for their lives.... Wherever you stop, he'll be waiting.... The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come--and knew in her heart that it would. She'd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had. A woman with a highly classified past, Grace had never run from anything in her life. But as a mother, she'd do anything to keep eight-year-old Frankie safe. Now that safe world has been shattered, and a ferocious hunter has been unleashed. Suddenly the agency that owed Grace its gratitiude and protection has abandoned her and only one ally remains: a man even more dangerous than her worst enemy. She hasn't set eyes on Jake Kilmer since the catastrophic events of eight years ago. Now he's asking Grace to trust him with the one thing more precious to her than life itself. But with a ruthless criminal kingpin determined to make her pay for the past, her and her daughter's lives on the line, and time running out, she just may have to put her faith in a man who she believes has already betrayed her once.