Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: She Can Run
Author: Melinda Leigh
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-6121-8151-6
Release Date: November 2011
Genre/Sub-genre: Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Present Day/Westburg, Pennsylvania
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Subtle/Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None/Mild
Violent Content Rating:Minimal/Moderate
Melinda's Website/Blog: www.melindaleighauthor.com
Dear Readers:
Beth Baker is on the run…literally, as the reader begins this tale. Beth has found out a rather upsetting secret in regards to her congressman husband, and finds herself almost dead on the floor of her own house because she interrupted something she shouldn’t have. Thankfully, she is very quick and succeeds in defending herself - leaving her husband tied up and unconscious, and racing out the door with her two children so that she can somehow stay alive.
It is ten months later when Beth has been offered the job of caretaker at a small estate out in the middle of nowhere - and jumps at it. But when she arrives, the gentleman who hired her for the position is in a coffin - with three drunken men standing around him.
The ‘nephew’ Jack is one of the first people Beth meets. This is the one who has inherited his Uncle’s run-down estate, and is still surprised that his Uncle had that much money ‘hidden’ away. He is also surprised by a letter that was left behind by his Uncle telling Jack all about his inheritance and the stipulation that Jack must help a woman who will arrive and watch out for her and her children as a favor to him.
Jack is five years Army and ten years on the force. Now he has to walk with a cane because one leg can no longer function. Of course, the injury wasn’t even earned by his time defending his country or state - it came from a simple accident where a drunk driver took away Jack’s ability to live without pain. He can tell from ‘minute one’ that this new woman who has appeared, Beth Ann Markham, is running from something, and Jack uses every old friend in the department to find out exactly who she is and what she’s running from.
Beth needs this job - she needs the isolation so that she can stay under any and all radar that is out there looking for her; and she needs more than anything to protect her children. Putting her faith in a stranger like Jack is something that she finds extraordinarily hard to do - but, in the end, she has no choice. Add in a contract killer who has appeared in town, and a path of intrigue and lies that will keep the reader locked into the story, and you have a good, solid debut.
Until next time, Amy
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