Someone's after wealthy Texan Slade Caulder's daughter. Desperate to keep her safe while he determines the motive, the widowed father hires a bodyguard for Abbey. A female bodyguard, with the training to protect the girl—and an understanding of a willful teenager who keeps trying to outsmart her. Elizabeth Walker is the perfect combination of caring and toughness for her job. But as the holidays approach, the stalker's threats escalate. And Slade finds himself willing to risk everything to keep his Christmas bodyguard by his side…forever. AMAZON 5 STARS
Wow, that was a really good book. Great main characters and the intensity level was kept high. That definitely kept me on the edge of my sea. The attacks kept coming and no matter how hard the security efforts were tightened they just kept increasing. At one point Slade said it felt like someone was just toying with them, wanting to make them suffer.
Slade and his daughter Abbey made for a good father and daughter combo. Slade had buried himself in work as a way to escape some of the grief after the death of his wife 5 years ago. Between that and the age his daughter is at increased the distance between them. Oh, they loved each other but it was getting harder and harder to express it because of that distance.
I can honestly say that Elizabeth was a somewhat complex person because of her rigid, unloving childhood and other past traumas. But her Uncle Joshua was someone that she had been able to re-connect with and he had helped her a lot. He loved her and had lead her to the Lord. It all helped her dig her way back out. Joshua also ends up being a big help during Elizabeth's assignment.
Abbey was totally what you would expect as a teenager.
The ending of the story comes with a great twist and a great ending. The "villain" was someone I had just started suspecting a few chapters back.
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