Shattered Secrets
Karen Harper
Mira, Aug 26 2014, $7.99
ISBN 9780778316473
When Tess Lockwood was a young child growing up in Cold Creek,
Ohio, someone snatched her. For eight
months she remained kidnapped before eventually returning to her family. Though she recalls nothing of her abduction
time, the horror kept Tess away from her hometown for almost two decades.
Recently Tess inherited her family home with the death of her mom. Reluctantly Tess returns to Cold Creek with a
plan to leave the Buckeye State for that state to the north (paraphrasing Woody
Hayes) Michigan as soon as she sells the property. Filled with guilt because he was watching her
when she was taken, Sheriff Gabe McCord hopes Tess can remember details of her
horror so that he can end the string of kidnappings that torments him and
haunted his late father the previous sheriff.
As Tess begins to recover buried memories, someone wants her dead. Meanwhile, a child’s abduction forces Gabe
and Tess to ignore their growing attraction to focus on the rescue.
Shattered Secrets is an enjoyable
romantic suspense starring a fascinating heroine suffering from PTSD though the
horror occurred almost two decades ago. During
the memory recovery phase, the storyline is leisurely-paced; but accelerates
into a frantic hyperspeed second half leading to the audience anxiously
awaiting a final conflict between Tess and her nightmare.
Harriet Klausner
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