Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: No Control
Author: Shannon K. Butcher
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0-446-61866-7
Release Date: February 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Present Day, Armenia and Missouri
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Subtle/Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Minimal/Moderate
Shannon's Website:
www.shannonkbutcher.com
Lana Hanock is a woman who has been tested to the extreme and she survived. Lana was part of group trying to help the people of Armenia. Members of the Swarm kidnapped her group and were torturing them trying to get something from them, although Lana wasn’t completely sure what. Lana was the only member of the group who escaped.
When she returned home, the pain and rehabilitation was excruatiating but what was worse were the images in her mind. The hood she wore had a small hole in it and she was able to watch her friends being tortured and saw the faces of her captors.
When Caleb Stone shows up in Missouri and says he wants to help her, Lana doesn’t know what to believe. He was part of the group that captured her and yet he was part of the group who freed her. Confusion was intense especially as she began to develop feelings for this man. She had to figure things out just to keep her mind straight.
Caleb was dealing with his own feelings. The punishment his mind inflicted on him was intense because the last thing he wanted was for the members of her group to be murdered. He had wanted to save them all but all he could save was the one. Now when her life was being threatened again, he was determined that nothing would hurt her.
Shannon Butcher created a riveting suspense with No Control. The drama that unfolds is multi-faceted and the depth is intriguing. She has a masterful writing style for the scenes that are being set and creates them such that the reader is sitting in the corner of the scene watching it all unfold.
I love how she creates such intricate threads that truly wrap around each other and yet are easily followed individually. The characters are raw, real, and yet sensitive and caring. This was one of those that I couldn’t put down until I knew she was safe.
Lori
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