"Romantic suspense at it's most suspenseful!"

I'm a huge fan of Dee Davis. I have thoroughly enjoyed every book that she's ever written. I devour her books much to my chagrin. Her books are not conducive to savoring. MIDNIGHT RAIN is one such book!

Jonathan Brighton finally goes on a vacation to Mexico at his brother Danny's insistence much against his better judgment. On the road to a client's mountain retreat, he's carjacked, shot in the head and left for dead.

Six months later, John Brighton is a changed man with a bullet still lodged in his brain. His memory is sketchy at best. He's finally getting out of the hospital but he has to take a physical therapist home with him for a while. Kate Cavanaugh really isn't a physical therapist. She's undercover for the FBI checking out John Brighton. It seems one of his employees, Derek Miller, has been found shot in the head. It's seems he's been dead for about six months and John was the last person to see him alive.

It's up to Kate to try to find out what John remembers and what he doesn't. The more she finds out, the more confusing everything gets. Things get pretty ugly when John finds out that she's FBI but can she convince him that she's there to help? There's much more to the story than she or John knows so can they figure it all out before things get out of hand?

I read this book in a matter of hours. The more I read the less I knew. Every guess I made as to who the villain was, I was wrong. I never figured it out and never found out who until the very last chapter! This is romantic suspense at it's very best and Dee Davis is the master!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted November 7, 2002

Summary

For undercover FBI agent Katie Cavanaugh this was supposed to be a routine job-go in, get the evidence, catch a killer. But from the moment she lays eyes on John Brighton the intense charge in the air between them lets her know that the stakes will be higher this time around. Posing as his physical therapist allows Katie first-hand access to him but she can't let the intimacy of living together cloud her judgment. She will need her instincts sharp if she is going to find him guilty...or prove his innocence.

Left for dead along a deserted highway, John awakes to find himself physically weakened, mentally scarred, and the lead suspect in a murder investigation. The only bright point in his life is Katie, warm and beautiful, she is the one person he thinks he can trust. But as a net of suspicion closes in, and as loyalties divide, John and Katie must work together to unravel the maze of secrets and lies that threaten to keep them apart forever...