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Flight

Miranda is a burnt-out forensic photographer who has escaped to Lost Beach to shoot photographs for a birding calendar. Lost Beach, a small island just off the coast of Texas, has a small police department staffed with capable, if stretched police officers. Joel is one of those detectives. Right off the bat, we know that something happened in San Antonio that made Miranda run, but what is it?

While out in her canoe shooting photographs at sunrise for the calendar, Miranda sees a canoe stuck in the reeds. Inside, she finds two people, wrapped up in each other’s arms. They are dead. She reports this to the police and in the aftermath, she meets Joel, who is appointed lead detective on the case.

My perfect romantic suspense has a plot that is strong enough to stand as a mystery on its own, along with some sexy tension between my hero and heroine. Chuck in some serious competence p0rn and you have me signed, sealed and delivered into reading heaven.

This book delivered. There were enough red herrings that I wasn’t able to guess the killer and did a literal gasp at the reveal. The sexual tension between Joel and Miranda is delicious! And I love love loved how competent all the characters are. Miranda, in particular, is REALLY good at her job even if she has a complicated relationship with her profession.

There are also three points of view: Joel, Miranda, and Nicole, Joel’s protege and detective-in-training. She’s smart, capable and keeps hitting walls. I expected to be frustrated with the move away from the main characters, but her perspective added depth to the book. She uncovers clues and comes up with some pretty convincing theories to explain that evidence.

Flight offers readers a terrific romantic suspense with a world of competence, sexual tension, big emotions, and outstanding mystery. I enthusiastically recommend it.

– Lara

When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she’s decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning, she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren’t asleep—they’ve been murdered.

Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers–not only about the unidentified victims in the marshy death scene, but also about the aloof and beautiful photographer who seems to know more about his investigation than he does.

As they begin to unravel the motivation of a merciless serial killer, Miranda and Joel must race against the clock to make an arrest before the killer can find them first.