⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5-stars

Another hit out of the park for Sue Coletta. The Grafton County Series is about the lives of Niko and Sage Quintano who live in Grafton County New Hampshire. Niko is the Sheriff and Sage is a crime writer. Sage has survived more than her fair share of tragedy, but in this book, it looks like she will have to go through more tragedy and her family is in danger once again as well. As usual, she will not rest until she knows that those she loves are safe.

Blurb:

Five missing boys and an adult corpse found in the town’s water shed was only the beginning for Sage and Niko Quintano. After a hooded-stranger gives their son, Noah, a stuffed animal–the exact Christmas moose given to all the missing boys days before their abductions–their lives spiral downward into uncertainty.

Could Noah be the next boy to go missing?

 As they piece together each cryptic clue, the future looks more and more grim. But what they soon discover blows everyone’s mind, the truth teetering on the unfathomable.

What does it all mean, and where do they go from here? 

I love Niko and Sage as well as the other characters in the Grafton County Series. Nico is always trying to support Sage in her writing and her need for investigating, but she sometimes gets out of hand and Niko worries about her. He has no control over her or Frankie. Sheriff Deputy Frankie Campanelli is sassy, snarky, and funny. She tries to be professional, but her personality slips out when she least expects it. Frankie’s antics always makes me laugh, even when she is doing her job and trying to be a good deputy, she just can’t seem to help herself. One of her replies to a request by Sheriff Quintano is “Minga, dude. You’re as useless as tits on a rooster.” She thrust a pointed finger toward the ground. “Get your ass down here now. You’re an embarrassment to the badge.” She was talking to young deputy Preston Bradley.

As I started this book, I was laughing, by the time I was at chapter 14, I was crying, and by the time I got to the end of this book, I was thinking, WTH? I give this book a 5-star review and cannot recommend this book, or any of Sue Coletta’s books, to readers enough. If you like snarky, sassy, strong women, crime stories, and suspense in your books, you will not be disappointed reading this book.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5-stars 

Kazimir “Kaz” is trying to get redemption for a past mistake that took from his family. He’s a dangerous man but his heartache is making him act before he thinks. He needs to convince his family that they are still in danger and that there is a traitor in the family, but he needs to get them to see that he is not the screw up that they all think he is.

Lindy ran away from her family after finding out that everything she thought she knew about her family was a lie. Their codling and sheltering of her almost got her killed and now she is determined to live her life on her own terms and left to make that happen. However, in order for her to do that she needs money and the plan that she comes up with is dangerous and she has convinced her two best friends and roommates to join her in her plan. Her plan could get them all beat up or worse, killed.

When Lindy and Kaz’s paths cross the sparks fly and Kaz’s relentless pursuit of Lindy confuses her. Why is he so interested in her and why does she always get tongue tied around him? When Kaz finds a way that will bring Lindy to him, the sparks really fly.

I absolutely loved this story. A woman who finds herself on her own and is strong, confident, and smart gets taken to her knees by a man who is powerful, lethal, and broken. The sparks between these two are hot, electric and dangerous. While they each have their own agendas, they both find a way to come to terms with their pasts and find a way forward. Kaz is a very sexy man he protects those that he cares about at all costs. The characters in this story are awesome. I love when these two figure out that their world is smaller than they thought. I did not want this book to end. I hope to read more about Katie and Raven as well as Tali and Leo. I look forward to more stories by Ms. Luciani as this was my first read of her books but won’t be my last. I cannot wait for Possessive.

I give this book a 5-star review and recommend it to readers who like mafia, suspense, women who are sassy and strong and men who love their women this way.

🌟🌟🌟🌟✨ 4.5 out of 5-stars

Wow! Talk about suspense, spies and politics! This book is full of all of this and more.

Sean is a man with a price on his head, a career that was taken from him, and his own way of doing things. He is tasked with helping his former agency with finding a woman who he once had an affair with and sousing out who she’s working for. His path will lead him to a few secrets that he knew nothing about and will also put him in danger more than once.

Jack is a man who works with a group of spies that are used when MI5 doesn’t want to accept responsibility of an op. They are the black ops of the British Secret
Service. He will call on Sean to assemble his team and do recon on a few different cases that have come up recently, only to find out that they are actually all related.

In order to control the politicians surrounding this plot and the reason for plan in the first place, Jack will have to resort to a little tactic from Russia and invoke the Kompromat for their plan of derailing the terrorists.

I really enjoyed the suspense and the espionage in this book. The story was packed with information, suspense and characters that pulled me in and kept me turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next, and if anyone was going to blow the op or be compromised as they were working to find the leader of the terrorist plot that they’re working to break up.

I give this story a 4.5-star review and highly recommend it to readers who like spy thrillers, political thrillers, suspense, and a team of spies who work very well together.