Review: Draws you in and hooks you tight
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
A Single Step isn't the sort of book I usually read, but I'm very glad I did.  It's a mystery and a romance that's seamlessly literary and carries you along as the captivating plot unfolds.  It's a first person narrative, my personal favourite type of novel, and the heroine, Emma Grayson is a complex person.  The story starts with her having an interview for a new job, a way of making a totally fresh start after a long period of personal troubles.  The new situation she finds herself in is fascinating: a huge complex farm and fine old manor house, run in a military style, where Emma's job is to be to set up riding stables and look after the horses when they arrive.  Along with her beloved dog, Suzi, Emma intends to work alone, and keep her distance from everyone.  But when she meets her new kind-hearted colleagues, she finds she can't help making friends, yet we wonder, what is happening that she doesn't know about?  What is this large farm's business?  Is it all it seems, or are there lurking mysteries under the surface, that Emma knows nothing about?  Why is her new employer so interested in her unarmed combat abilities, and how has he found out all about her previous life before she even met him?  And when the handsome taciturn Trent comes into her orbit she dislikes him at first, especially as his past is a total mystery that no one will talk about . . .Emma has a lot of problems. She  is recovering from her own personal tragedy and marriage break-up, and all she wants is to start afresh in her own time, in her own space.  But try as she might to remain aloof and alone, she finds that she has to accept help occasionally.  And she's extremely glad of this assistance when events take more and more sinister turns until she finds herself in mortal danger.  Yet who is her unknown enemy?  Going into more details here would spoil the story.If you like an interesting, flawed, but sexy heroine who can give as good as she gets, you'll love this book.  And if you like handsome enigmatic strong-but-silent heroes, and mysterious goings-on in a lovely countryside location where no one is quite who they seem to be, you'll love it too.I'm very much looking forward to the next two books that are coming soon in the Grayson Trilogy.