Desperate Measures

by Paula Detmer Riggs

MISSING!

Judge Amanda Wainwright's daughter had been kidnapped, and the price of her freedom was a verdict in favor of a notorious crime boss. It was a price she couldn't pay - but how could she live with herself if she didn't do everything in her power to save her daughter's life?

Enter Devlin Buchanan, cowboy-lean, ex-FBI, and the answer to Amanda's prayers. Once he was on the kidnappers' trail he was ruthless, all business, unstoppable. But he also had another side. Beneath his dangerous surface lived a man with a heart, a man who dreamed of love and laughter, a man who longed to share his life with Amanda.

Genres: Category Romance

252 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1989

About the author

Paula Detmer Riggs was born in 1944 and earned a BS from the Miami University in 1965. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and Novelists Inc.. She's worked professionally as a ember of the writing faculty of San Diego State University, Long Beach State University, and Irvine State University. Paula Detmer Riggs has written for Silhouette Desire and Silhouette Intimate Moments.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, I've been on an oldie kick recently and with old books there come moments when you want to smack the characters and for me it was the heroine I wanted to smack. She is a 35 year old widow with a 7 year old daughter and respectable judge for the past five years and just when she is about to try the biggest case of her career (a mob trial), her daughter is kidnapped by the man who is to go on trial so she contacts a FBI guy she knows who redirects her to the hero, a man who the world considers dead, a man who was in her courtroom a few years back, on trial for using excessive force.

So, she tracks him down in Mexico, now my problem was that she was so judgy she needed help yet couldn't put down her morals. The hero comes back to help her, moving in with her as her bodyguard and when he finds a lead to her daughter she of course has to interfere instead of leaving it up to the experts. I mean her daughter is missing, but I didn't see the urgency in her instead she starts falling for the hero and still keeps sticking to her moral lines.

The hero doesn't think he fits into the heroine's perfect world, whereas he knows the dark side and seems to thrive in it, the heroine comes from a different world but despite my quibbles I enjoyed the book.