Romantic Suspense / Psychological Thriller
Date Published: 10/18/12
Publisher: Sapphire Star Publishing
Tyler Karras is an honest man, a transplanted Brit living the American dream, but his charmed life takes an unexpected turn when his brother, Nick, is coerced into joining ranks with San Francisco’s Russian mafia. Ty intervenes to secure Nick’s freedom, yet only succeeds in incurring their wrath. With no choice but to accept Nick’s new life, Ty returns to his own, but his dreams are dashed when his wife—pregnant with their first child—is killed, the victim of a reckless crime.
Despondent and bitter, Ty macerates his grief in alcohol. From the depths of the bottle screams a voice, howling for vengeance. His target is a stranger, the woman who drew his wife toward her death. He doesn’t know her, but he’ll find her, and when he does, he will make her pay, for a deal has been struck with Nick’s Russian associates, enslaving her into a life of bondage. But as Ty moves forward in a cloud of alcohol, he mistakes the wrong woman for his intended victim and now all his plans have gone straight to hell.
With his eyes made clear by the stark reality of his mistake, Ty is driven, compelled by remorse and a relentless sense of guilt to make amends and protect Hannah Maguire, the innocent woman whose life he has derailed. He vows to keep her safe and out of the Russians’ hands, but they’re holding Nick as leverage to force Ty to complete their deal and turn over the girl. Once again, he must fight to free his brother, miring all three lives in further jeopardy. But Ty can’t do it all: Save the girl, his brother and his own soul. One of them must make the ultimate sacrifice.
My Rating:
My Review:
Nancy S. Thompson does an amazing job of nailing of the Thriller genre. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. The addition of the Romance to this story really helped in in my opinion. I know not everyone likes Romance with their Suspense/Thrillers, but I definitely do!
Ty was such a all around great guy and the character you root for. Nick was the guy you love to hate and eventually you just LOVE him! All around the characters were well executed and kept me wanting to read more about them.
Nancy did a great job taking a not so unique theme but making it unique in just about every other way and the Romance that developed between Hannah and Tyler could have seemed less authentic but it really came across as genuine. I really enjoyed this!
EXCERPT
“Hannah, I’ve explained that you—by proxy, of course—have a price on your
head, that you’d been sold already. I’ve been trying to get you out of this
deal, but these people Nick and I are mixed up with are reluctant to
renegotiate. They’ve already received payment from their client and are just
waiting for me to deliver you to them. I’ve explained to Nick’s boss, Alexi,
that I’d made a mistake, that I had misidentified you, that I had the wrong
girl.”
Ty shook his head and kept his eyes pinned to the floor.
“From the beginning, Alexi knew I was intending retribution against Erin,
and since he would directly benefit from it, he was only too willing to
accommodate me, but essentially, he doesn’t care about the reasoning behind the
plan. All he cares about is that I owe him his, uh…merchandise. Merchandise
he’s already sold and been paid for. He only cares about closing the deal. I
told him I would repay the price his boss, Dmitri, had accepted, with interest,
and he could refund the money to his client. But he’s not willing to do that.
Nick said it’s not about the money for Dmitri, it’s about power. They can’t
allow themselves to be screwed with, to look weak.”
He stopped pacing, stuffed his hands in his pockets, and stared out the
window.
“I told Alexi I would never turn you over—an innocent girl—to be used
that way. At this point, I couldn’t even do that to Erin .”
“We argued over this point for some time without coming to an agreement,
so Alexi felt… He felt it…necessary to
secure some kind of...insurance policy—leverage, you might say—to compel me to
complete the deal by our prearranged deadline.”
“Hannah, Alexi has my brother, and he will kill him if I don’t comply.”
“The hell of revenge—the hope of redemption”
Nancy started writing fiction rather suddenly one day in 2010. Inspired by a song, she was struck with an idea she couldn’t shake and just had to write it down. It was while working on this, her first novel, that she discovered just how much she loved writing. She only wishes she had known how much years earlier. Nancy makes her fiction debut with The Mistaken. She is an interior designer and California transplant, currently living with her husband near Seattle, WA.
Nancy started writing fiction rather suddenly one day in 2010. Inspired by a song, she was struck with an idea she couldn’t shake and just had to write it down. It was while working on this, her first novel, that she discovered just how much she loved writing. She only wishes she had known how much years earlier. Nancy makes her fiction debut with The Mistaken. She is an interior designer and California transplant, currently living with her husband near Seattle, WA.
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Wow, thank you so much!
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