Faith, a veteran officer, is alarmed when reaching her mother’s home, to find evidence of foul play and calls for back up. But she disregards the orders to wait for the back up when it’s obvious that there’s someone moving around in the house and she fears for her mother’s life. In just minutes Faith becomes both a witness and a suspect when she’s forced to kill 2 of the perps in order to defend others.

I haven’t read any other books by this author and it was obvious from the start that this book is part of an ongoing series. As a matter of fact the author has two series and brought these characters together in prior books. I believe reading any of the other books would have only increased my level of enjoyment in reading this story that was difficult to put down.

This story is told mainly from the points of view of Dr Sara Linton, a former coroner now emergency room doctor who is interested in Will. Will, an officer with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations who is partnered with Faith. And Faith, who finally sees the bigger picture on how having a child at such a young age affected members of her family. We also get one scene with the point of view from Evelyn, Faith’s mother, who is the kidnap victim and herself a retired police captain.

There’s a lot that takes place in this story. While Faith remains under surveillance, waiting for the kidnappers to contact her, she must do her best to protect her family and is willing to do anything to get her mother back. Will and their boss, Amanda who is a personal friend of Evelyn’s, are off trying to find answers through interviews with criminals that make the police fearful even though the police have jurisdiction over the crime and aren’t sharing a whole lot of information. Sara’s role in the story is two-fold. She uses her experience and contacts to feed information to Will and Amanda, but her interest in Will and the pursuit of that relationship is a larger role.

I very much enjoyed the unraveling story as we come to the surprising root cause of the crime. It’s not at all predictable. The characters whose point of view we followed obviously had more depth than the others, although many of them were interesting and I’d like to know more about them.

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