Review: Adventure and Intrigue
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
My favorite stories are all about the adventure and intrigue of finding love while fighting off the bad guys. Working out the pitfalls, bumps and misunderstandings of a romantic relationship while under fire helps to keep the pages turning. Devil In Disguise offers all of this and a good deal more. There are a few rough spots in the beginning, and one or two regional references that left me scratching my head, but Devil In Disguise finds its rhythm and delivers a read that is hard to put down.Rachel Cooper, television journalist and on-air anchor, is good at her job. She's also good at keeping her personal relationships at arm's length. She likes her life the way it is until the night her teenage sister is abducted. With a single phone call Rachel and her family are thrown into the world of human trafficking. Thanks to a story she reported, Rachel knows something about the dangers - enough to have her calling in the people she trusts most. The first call she makes is to Conrad Langston, ex-lover, the man she's never gotten over.Rescuing Julia is just the beginning. Keeping her safe while she recovers from her ordeal requires the family to leave everything behind and disappear. For Rachel it means taking risks that she could never have dreamed of while opening her heart to Conrad and trusting in a future that may never be.Heather Huffman takes readers into one of the most frightening scenarios a family can dream of: human trafficking. She champions a cause by weaving it into a really good story with believable characters, mostly believable scenes, and an occasional breath of humor. I will be looking for the other titles in this series.This review was written by Laurel Newberry for The Book Breeze