Review: Good and evil isn't black and white
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2012
Mary Brown has survived a hideous childhood and still suffers from the scars. When she was only nine years old she watched her mother being brutally killed. The greatest comfort in her life has been her father.  In an ugly twist of fate, her father, an innocent bystander, is killed in a jewelry store robbery. Little does Mary know that fate has only begun to weave itself into her life.  Enter Connor McLarren who tries to warn her that evil men are looking for a chest her father owned and that she is in danger.  And so begins a wild tale of four bank robbers and all killers who capture Mary and Connor insisting that Mary lead them to infamous chest that her father stored in his mountain high cabin.  Mary and her father were search and rescue leaders who saved many hikers and climbers from certain death in the dangerous Cascade mountains surrounding Mt. Rainier. Using her search and rescue skills, Mary leads the band of killers on a week-long false trail supposedly to her father's cabin. She and Connor try to find ways to escape the evil men, but each time they almost succeed something interferes. Not the least of which is Mary's abhorrence of killing. Given the brutal deaths of her parents, she can't sanction killing for any reason.  The brutality of the men who have captured her force her to face her "peace at any price" attitude. This is a terrific adventure story and a poignant love story that forces the heroine AND the reader to deal with questions of good and evil and the gray areas in between.  Highly recommended.