A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Valerie
The third book in the Shadow Falls trilogy opens with a missing teenager and the sixteen year old mystery of the missing baby first revealed in book one. Dr. Carrie Overton is the only person alive that knows that her son Sam is that missing baby. With the search for the child heating up, Shadow Falls is once again thrown into turmoil. Sam’s best friend is missing, and the town has several suspicious visitors.
In the midst of this turmoil, Carrie and Sam meet Gabriel Cain. Gabe has come to town looking for answers. A wanderer at heart with no place to call home, Carrie starts to wonder if he’ll ever want a home base. Both Carrie and Sam are drawn to Gabe immediately, and Gabe in return is drawn to them. However, before anything can be settled between them, the disappearances of area teens needs to be solved and Carrie’s secrets will need to be revealed.
In this third installment of the Shadow Falls series, Maggie Shayne has written a unique story that will keep readers guessing until the very end. The trilogy concludes with a superb mystery and fast-paced story. The romance between Gabe and Carrie fits well with their characters and is developed in a way that meshes just right with the ongoing mystery. Readers will savor romantic suspense as Gabe and Carrie race to find out who is behind the teenagers kidnappings before Carrie’s son is the next to be taken.
Jun 24, 2010 | 9780778328087
5 = Rare - Top Pick | 4.5 = I Loved It - Top Pick | 4 = Good Solid Read
3.5 = Enjoyable | 3 Stars = OK - Needs a few changes | 2 Stars = It just didn't click / DNF
Book Blurb for Kiss Me, Kill Me
She's protected him since the day he was born.
Since the day the lie began.
Since the day she claimed him as her own.
A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton's life forever. Before disappearing into the night, the grateful stranger left her newborn son for Carrie to raise. When the woman is later found murdered, the secret becomes Carrie's alone.
She has kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years. But now a friend of Sam's has gone missing. The police in quaint, quiet Shadow Falls, Vermont, believe he's a runaway - until he's found dead and another teen disappears, and talk turns to that long-ago murder.
Newcomer Gabriel Cain is asking too many questions, befriending Sam, getting too close. Carrie distrusts him even as she finds herself falling for him. But Gabriel has secrets, too, secrets to challenge the fierceness of a mother's love.
She's been lying about her son since the day he was born.
Lying to everyone who trusts her.
Can Gabriel's arrival mark the day the lie finally ends and real life begins?
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