BOOK REVIEW- Cold In The Shadows (Cold Justice series#5) by Toni Anderson

 

Working in the shadows, CIA Officer Patrick Killion needs to figure out if feisty frog biologist, Audrey Lockhart, is a deadly assassin or an innocent scapegoat. And the only way to do that is to gain her trust.

Attacked and left for dead, Audrey is forced to put her trust in an enigmatic stranger who saves her from certain death. Then Audrey discovers her rescue was actually an abduction, and the man she thought was her savior is her captor.

Killion is falling hard and fast for his target and suddenly he has his hands full, dealing with a smart, beautiful woman who is furious at his deception. Betrayal is everywhere and Killion doesn't know who to trust. The organization he works for? Or the woman he's falling in love with?

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5 STARS

Outstanding !  This was a very full, edge of my seat story !!  Tense, unpredictable and pulled me in really quickly.  

Audrey was so over her head with no clue to what was going on.  Why was she the target? Who wanted her dead?  Who is Killion and can he be trusted?  That's just the beginning of the mysteries that surround her.  Although Killion was sure she was guilty of murder and more, he saved her life more than once. There is especially one time when he wasn't sure she was going to live at all after being stabbed.  

 Killion is quite the chameleon, charming but also deadly when it came to interrogations. But there is also a different side of Killion that shows up from time to time.  He's more than just an operative but Audrey wasn't always sure which Killion was going to show up.  That doesn't stop them from being attracted to each other making for a dangerous romance of sorts.  They were good together when they allowed themselves to be.  I enjoyed that part, especially when Audrey gave feisty right back to Killion when he messed with her.

The multiple dangers keep things hopping with very little letup of the tension.  Many people are used by the enemies and not all of them come out of it alive.  But Killion also had some help from some people you wouldn't expect, some of them with international ties.  

Great ending after an explosive confrontation.  An unusual H.E.A. but it's headed that way.

 

I read this book through HOOPLA and then found I had a copy of it through Amazon.