Luna Rosati found acceptance and a family during childhood, but when she became pregnant at seventeen, she gave the baby up for adoption and left without a word. Now a CIA counterintelligence officer, Luna wants to reconcile her fractured sense of self by finding the only blood family she has left–the teenage daughter she’s never met. Her mentor, Stryker, promises to reveal her daughter’s identity, but first Luna must meet him in the old neighborhood, the last place she wants to be. Then Stryker is captured.
Special Agent Corbin King changed his surname to escape the shadow of his convicted father serving a life sentence. When he runs into Luna, the object of his failed teenage romance, the two must put their pasts aside and work together toward a greater mission. But when they encounter a kidnapping, missing bodies, and murder, the secrets Corbin and Luna are keeping from one another are only the beginning of the threat they face with more than their own lives at stake.
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Summary
4.5 stars
"Rather than face pain and work through the messy stuff, Luna always cut and ran."
Former intelligence agent Luna Rosati never thought that she would return to Millie Beach, Florida, the place where her best and worst memories still managed to survive after the eighteen years that she had been gone. No one but Stryker could have convinced her to come back, but here she was. Before she could make contact with the man who knew where her adopted daughter might be, the subject of Luna's particularly painful memories walked in the front door of the diner, only to eye-witness Stryker being tased out on the street and then kidnapped before their very eyes.
As if laying eyes on Special Agent Corbin King wasn't enough, Luna joins him on the chase and becomes embroiled in a tangled web of death and destruction; girls are missing, and not just any girls; troubled teens whose families would not immediately search for their whereabouts . When it becomes apparent that they have stumbled upon a large criminal enterprise, the stakes skyrocket and the timeline shortens.
Daring, dangerous, and ingenious plotting combine to make this story a testament to a God who uses trials and triumphs to produce healing from within, giving Luna and Corbin the capacity to offer that same grace and compassion to those around them, including each other. It's no understatement to say how much I dearly loved these characters. Plus, what a fabulous second chance romance!
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book from Baker Publishing through Interviews and Reviews.