Every choice she’s ever made-what to wear, drive, even who to marry-has been defined by her father, Win Sutherland. The heroine, Annie Sutherland, is, at 27, a pampered, sheltered, gorgeous girl. In many of your stories, your hero is a stronger character than his love interest. This setup works beautifully in Black Ice but disappoints in Moonrise. And both, forced into company with women who place their lives at stake, find love and something worth living for in the arms of their unwanted companions. Both men work for a shadow organization-in James’ case, it’s the wet work arm of the CIA-and both have killed so many times they’ve all but lost their humanity.

James too had a horrific childhood, his shaped in wounding ways by poverty and violence in Northern Ireland. James too is a killer who, while fighting for “the good guys,” realized his actions made him one of the bad ones. In Moonrise, the hero, James McKinley, is a Bud Light Bastien. In Black Ice, the hero, Bastien (be still my beating heart), is a layered, complex guy, struggling in ways the reader can see with morality, with the heft our actions have, and with what it means to give up oneself to love. In both Black Ice and Moonrise, the hero spends a great deal of time trying to decide between two approaches to the heroine: death or sex. At its finish, I was irked at much of it and yet, in many ways, it mirrors the themes found in the Ice series which, in general, I enjoyed. I mention Black Ice because Moonrise reads like a pale version of that book. It’s an older book-first published it in 1996, almost ten years before Black Ice. I picked Moonrise based on its high ratings on Amazon. I never know whether one of your books will work for me or not, but the ones that do- Reckless and Black Ice are two of my all-time favorite novels-really do. When I saw that many of your older titles were finally available as eBooks, I thought I’d check one out. Dabney C Reviews Category romantic-suspense 47 Comments

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