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Top FBI negotiator Quentin Savage is hurled into his worst nightmare when a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel propels him from esteemed keynote speaker to powerless captive.
Haley Cramer is co-owner of a private security firm and prides herself on her independence, but she is shaken to the core when gunmen attack a conference she is attending. She survives, but only because Quentin Savage pretends she’s his wife.
Together Savage and Haley plot their escape from a ragtag army of brutal but efficient thugs while struggling to figure out exactly who the enemy is. Why was the conference attacked, and why was Quentin a specific target?
Publication date: October 2019
Mature content: yes
Review: I never thought I would come to say this about something written by Toni Anderson - but I didn't like this book. At all.
Everything felt off, right from the start. Haley, supposedly a shrewd business woman and partner of a large security company, agrees to conduct a business meeting in a prospective client's hotel room when it was already clear he was after more than private security services.
Then she manages to run from his room (and from sexual assault) just to get into bed with his next door neighbour, Quentin, also a stranger, just like the guy she ran away for - as if the fact he was American, younger, good looking and some hotshot negotiator for the FBI made all the difference.
And from then on, the weirdness doesn't stop. The attack to the hotel seems like a farce, and even at the end, when you think about it, it still doesn't make all that sense. Most of the situations Haley and Quentin find themselves into are not convincing and the book seems to have been written just for the sake of having at least one story in the series happening out of the US for a change.
The writing is strange in places, with long sentences and a lot of repeated words. Some scenes (even the sex ones) have sentences repeated exactly word by word in different pages.
All other books I've read so far be this author were great, but I can't bring myself to recommend this one.
Happy readings!
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