"This story will surprise you!"

Ben Jacobs accepts a position with the Bullion Police Department because his canine partner, Czar is near retirement age but Ben knows that Czar has more good years left. After all they've been a team for nine years now.

Ben isn't comfortable around the press but he reluctantly allows Jill Martin to interview him and watch him put Czar through his paces. What Ben doesn't understand is how Jill and Czar seem to bond instantly. This is totally unlike Czar. When Jill's story breaks the paper it's nothing like how she wrote it. She can't figure out who is sabotaging her. Ben is attracted to Jill but doesn't like the way she showed him and Czar in a bad light even though she tries to explain that the story is not what she wrote.

Then an acquaintance of Jill's mysteriously disappears taking with her some files that Jill has been investigating that just so happen to involve Jill's sleazebag ex-husband and new wife. Is there a correlation somewhere in all of this? Then Jill and Czar are horrendously attacked and left for dead. Something very eerie and strange happens when they are both in limbo. What does this mean? Can they figure out what's going on before it is too late for them all?

What I really liked about this book is even though it is a Harlequin Superromance, there are some paranormal elements to it. I also liked the fact that even though Czar the dog is a police dog, he immediately loves Jill. Ben can't understand this because Czar is well trained and even though he doesn't blatantly disobey Ben when they are with Jill, he turns to Jill for instructions also.

This book had me in its grip from the very first page. I eagerly devoured it and wanted more. This book has turned me into a rabid Debra Salonen fan!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted May 14, 2002

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Summary

For journalist Jill Martin things go from bad to worse when she meets hunky K-9 cop Ben Jacobs. Yes, he's gorgeous, and yes, his dog, Czar, greets her like a long, lost friend, but Jill has this mystery to solve and an annoying ex- husband to deal with and a missing friend-slash-source. Oh, and there's the small matter of the attempt on her life that left her in a coma. Jill does what anyone would do, right? She calls on man's best friend for a little help.