“Fans of romantic suspense won’t be able to put this book down until the final page is turned.”—Publishers Weekly on The Deception
When missing turns to murdered, one woman’s search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go…
After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she’s called to the morgue to identify Chrissy’s body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief send Kate into a tailspin. She failed Chrissy once…she won’t do it again. Even if finding her sister’s killer means following a lethal bounty hunter into the heart of darkness, placing both their lives in danger.
Working at Maximum Security has taken Jason Maddox down some dangerous paths, but never for a client he’s so drawn to, or for a case so monstrous. As clues lead them deeper into the city’s underbelly, connections to human trafficking draw them closer and closer to peril, but even Jase’s warnings can’t convince Kate to walk away. As the deadly operation puts a target on their backs, they’ll have to decide what matters most: the truth…or their lives.
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Sexual Content - 4/5
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Violence - 3.5/5
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Language - 3.5/5
3.5/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 2.5/5
2.5/5
Summary
The Deception by Kat Martin is a romantic suspense book in the Maximum Security series. I am a huge fan of Kats; she wrote one of my favorite romantic suspense books.
In The Deception, I’m having a very hard time liking the main character Kate. She’s stupid; she makes stupid decisions. I hate that in the female character. You need to be smart enough to know when you need to get involved and when you need to let the professionals handle it. She even gets herself in bad situations and the people taking care of her bad situations and continues to do it. It’s not being a male chauvinist when you’re working these situations and you make the unqualified person stay back.
With all that said; Jace is a great character and I cannot wait for Bran’s story. Kat did a great job at giving us the intrigue behind Bran that I cannot wait for his book. Jace is a good character; he’s likable and totally hero material.
Their relationship seemed more physical than emotional; this could be because I didn’t like Kate.
Kat writes about the tough subject of human trafficking. The book opens with the body of Kate’s sister and the story is of them trying to find her killer.
Sexual content - 4 several physical scenes, they were more physical than emotional
Violence 3.5 - Human trafficking, drugs, deaths, physical abuse,
drugs - not the main characters but they drugged the girls, dealing drugs
alcohol - both characters were drinking
language f-word 12 times, d@mn - 24, sh!t - 10 times