Heart-racing romance, breathless suspense
A troubled hero returns home to a family nightmare in this thrilling Coltons of Shadow Creek tale!
Hired to renovate his family’s former mansion, River Colton hopes to find answers to his deepest questions. Plagued by memories of his fugitive mother, the ex-marine finds danger to his life in the estate’s secret chambers—and danger to his heart in Edith Beaulieu, its beautiful new guardian.
But someone doesn’t want Edith or River in the seemingly haunted house. When Edith falls victim to too many “accidents”—and falls hard for River—the Texas loner risks everything to protect her. If the ghosts of Coltons past lurk in the shadows, it’s up to Edith and River to hunt them down…
The Coltons of Shadow Creek: Only family can keep you safe…
Discover the full miniseries below
Book 1: Colton’s Secret Son by Carla Cassidy
Book 2: Colton Undercover by Marie Ferrarella
Book 3: Pregnant by the Colton Cowboy by Lara Lacombe
Book 4: Cold Case Colton by Addison Fox
“High stakes and intense emotions make this passionate read a sizzling addition…”—RT Book Reviews
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
The Colton Marine by Lisa Child is part of the Coltons of Shadow Creek. I had not read the other books and I was able to follow this one very well. The underlying story in the series is that their mom is missing and she is wanted by the FBI for murder. River is the marine that has returned home from very bad injuries from the war. He finds out that the man he thoughts was his father isn’t so now he doesn't know who his father is. This is just one more thing his mother has done to cause havoc in the family. He feels lost both from not knowing what to do after the service and finding out who his real father is. The author did a great job of making River a hero even with his injuries.
Edith is working for the man who has bought River’s mother's mansion. This is the house they grew up in and each one has different memories of the house. Several accidents start to happen as Edith works in the house to get it ready for her boss. Edith hires River to help her not knowing that he has his own reasons for wanting to be in the house. They start to feel that someone may be in the house.
Definitely some revelations happened in the book and Edith and River try to fight their attraction to each other. Edith has a mysterious boss who becomes a little more known in this book.
A bonus was that I love the cover 🙂
There was also enough storyline around the other siblings that would make you want to purchase those stories also.
Sexual content: one physical scene, chemistry throughout
Violence: nothing disturbing, accidents, held at gunpoint
Language - D@mn - 51 times, b!tch - 3, nothing stronger
alcohol/drug -no drugs, might have been drinking, nothing noticeable.