Review: Romantic Thriller Near the Tex-Mex Border
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
Chloe Palmer and Rafael Solis fell in love in the 5th grade and planned to stay that way forever, until Rafael’s mother and sister hatched a plot that succeeded in breaking them up just before their Senior prom. Chloe left the town of Port Isabel, Texas, in disgrace, and made a life elsewhere. Broken-hearted, Rafael joined the Navy out of spite. After his tour of duty, he returned to Port Isabel and was elected the popular sheriff.Seven years after they broke up, still unwed, the two of them met again, when Chloe—now an unwed mother—returned for her murdered father’s funeral. The old spark between them quickly turned to flames. Chloe inherited her father’s shrimp boat. She set out to prove that she could captain the boat, mornings and bartend evenings, in the hopes of picking up clues to solve her father’s murder. Three men are now in love with her, one of them being Manuel Cruz an evil drug importer who runs drugs and illegal immigrants in from Mexico via the Gulf of Mexico. Chloe and Rafael suspect Manuel Cruz of Palmer’s murder among other things, and so they set a dangerous trap.Author J. D. Faver has enriched the story with many characters, plot twists and scenes of the beautiful coast along South Padre Island. There are stories and interesting facts about shrimping, as well as the dolphins who populate the Gulf and follow the shrimp boats.Highly recommended for lovers of romantic suspense.