Forbidden Ground
Karen Harper
Harlequin MIRA, Oct 28 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9780778316701
Despite their harrowing childhood memories of their sibling’s
abduction and father’s desertion (see Shattered
Secrets), anthropologist Kathryn and social worker Charlene Lockwood returns
to Cold Creek, Ohio to attend their youngest sister Tess’ wedding to Sheriff
Gabe McCord. Tess stuns an upset Kate
with news she invited their father who abandoned them during the crisis and his
second family to the ceremony with her dad giving her away.
While in town, Kate hopes to study the nearby Adena burial sites;
but Gabe’s best man Grant Mason says no to her request to conduct a dig at the
Mason Mound on his family property. However,
Grant takes Kate to see his friend Paul Kettering to help with her
project. When they arrive at Paul’s
studio, they find him dead; his skull smashed in by a tree trunk carving. With McCord on his honeymoon, Deputy Sheriff
Jace Miller leads the investigation, but feels over his head; so Grant and Kate
assist him. Though she feels he conceals
something from her, Grant and Kate fall in love, but he fears his secret will
destroy their relationship.
The second Cold Creek Lockwood
romantic suspense is an interesting whodunit enhanced by a tremendous glimpse into
the prehistoric Adena people whose mounds are all over the Ohio Valley. The cast is solid especially when the focus
is on either the homicide or the Adena, while the well-written polite family
estrangement slows down the plot.
Readers will look forward to Char’s tale wondering whether it will occur
in the Buckeye State or the Land of Enchantment where she works.
Harriet Klausner
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