Stalked in Conard County

Conard County: The Next Generation #43

by Rachel Lee

She thought she had nothing to fear…
…until she returned to Wyoming.

The shock of seeing a peeping Tom at her window revives nurse Haley McKinsey’s worst nightmare: her childhood abduction. Did this voyeur kidnap her so long ago?

But only her childhood friend Roger McLeod believes her suspicion. After several harrowing attempts on her life, Haley accepts the cowboy’s protection. And as their bond begins to turn into something more, a shadow from her past tries to silence her for good.

Genres: Romantic Suspense

283 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 12, 2019

About the author

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Rachel Lee is a New York Times best-selling author and the winner of Six Romantic Times magazine Reviewers' Choice Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA® Award. She has penned a wide variety of novels in several genres including fantasy, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy. She resides in Tampa, Florida.

Reviews

[Amber]

2.5 stars
Idk, I feel like it resolved very abruptly but it also wasn't a nonsensical resolution either

[Kate Vale]

Another Conard County: The Next Generation installment that focuses on nurse Haley McKinsey when she returns to her grandmother's house, which she has inherited, to clean it out. Will she stay or go back to Baltimore? She isn't sure, but is leaning toward staying until she wakes to catch a glimpse of a peeping Tom in her window, an event that sends her mind whirling back to when she was 5 and was kidnapped.

As she continues to go through her grandmother's things, Haley gets to know the neighbor boy, now a man, one Roger McLeod, whom she remembers from when she used to visit her grandmother. They become friends and he worries about how much that peeping Tom has wrecked Haley's sense of safety.

When she drives to an airport to visit a friend, however, she is run off the road and almost killed. When the sheriff concludes it was no accident, no one knows who it might have been until the perpetrator delivers something to the door and Haley hears his voice: the same voice of the kidnapper.

How this all plays out is face-paced but predictable.

[Robin Brennan]

Haley McKinsey returns to Conard County to settle her grandmother’s estate. She lived there as a child and was kidnapped. While she was found, the trauma left a lasting impact on her and her family. Her return has Haley confronting the issue again with the support of her friend Roger McLeod. The kidnapper had left town, but returned on his retirement and sees Haley as a threat to his place in the community.. it was enjoyable with twists and turns. Being a fan of the Conard County series it’s fun to see and hear about characters from earlier books.

[Deborah]

I love the Conard County series by Rachel Lee. This one started a little slower but picks up the pace as a stalker makes deadly plans for the heroine. Haley has to work through flashbacks, trauma, and tensions of something that happened when she was a child. Our hero, Roger, is there to help her deal with her feelings of being a coward.

[Harlequin Books]

Categories
Contemporary Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Romantic Suspense
Miniseries
Conard County: The Next Generation

[Stephanie Duerr]

Would have got 5 stars just a little too bit on the cringe side

[Gill]

Good read but a major editing issue

I do love visiting conard county. And this was a good read. A major edit problem though. Early in the book we hear that the hero's dad is living with his brother. Later in the book it says he died of a heart attack

[Diane Morrell]

I love the Conard County series. I liked these characters and the plot of this book. Loking forward to reading more from Lee.