Publisher: Harlequin
Rating: PG 14
Published: March 20, 2012
Format: e-book, paperback (224 pages)
Categories: Romantic Suspense
ISBN 13: 9780373277728
Websites: Author, Harlequin Books, GoodReads, Amazon
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| 4 of 5 Stars |
“Grace, I won’t screw it up again.”
There was nowhere safe for Grace Baker and her baby to run.
Even the law was no match for the ruthless drug lord who'd fathered her child.
Serrano had spies everywhere and wouldn't stop till he captured his son and
killed Grace. Now Marshal Sam Chance was suddenly back in her life offering
protection…could she dare to refuse?
Sam believed his family ranch was the one place Grace would be safe. Here they found refuge in each other's arms. But returning home only reminded Sam of his past failure to protect those he loved. This time had to be different. Because Grace and her baby meant more to him than life itself.
Sam believed his family ranch was the one place Grace would be safe. Here they found refuge in each other's arms. But returning home only reminded Sam of his past failure to protect those he loved. This time had to be different. Because Grace and her baby meant more to him than life itself.
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I really enjoyed
reading the trials and tribulations of Grace and Sam. It has U.S. Marshalls, cowboys, a giant
ranch, a drug lord, and two people with a lot of misplaced guilt.
Grace Baker – Not
her real name! – is running away from her baby’s father after being a witness
against him in court. He’s a Mexican
Drug Lord who escaped from Jail before he was sentenced to life in prison and
is now on a crusade to find her and her son, kill Grace and take the child back
to Mexico to his mother. No, Grace is not his girlfriend or willing
lover. She was a 19 year old college
student when she was kidnapped by Jose Serrano, the drug lord, to try to
control her father’s Spanish Language Newspaper in San Diego. The father refused so instead of killing her,
he kept her and made her his very unwilling mistress.
Sam Chance is the
U.S. Marshall who was protecting Grace and her son Mikey when she bolted and
ran off on her own from the safe-house she was staying in in Denver. Six weeks later, he has tracked her
down. She is working in a truck-stop in
a small town in Texas. As the oldest of 6
siblings whose mother died when he was 17, with a he has always tried to take
care of people, whether his family, the recruits when he was an MP in the Army
or the witnesses he has protected as a U.S. Marshall. However there’s something more with his protection of Grace and
her son. That’s why he took a leave of
absence and went to find her himself when his boss tried to pull him off the
case. He walks in to the diner and, just
as their eyes meet, two of Serrano’s men come in right behind him!
This is the opening
scene of a nicely fast-paced story about 2 people searching for what they don’t
think they deserve. Of course, in
addition to them running for their lives, they both have major personal issues
including the fact that, while he decides to take Grace and Mikey to his
family’s ranch, he hasn’t been back there or been in touch with his family
since he left at the age of nineteen to join the Army.
Linda has taken two
psychologically damaged people who have faced much more than any two people
should have and given them a chance at what neither of them thinks they
deserve. There is sex, and good sex,
with Sam the ever patient lover. It’s a
really enjoyable read. I only wish it
had been longer.
This is the first
Linda Conrad book I have had the privilege to read and it is definitely not my
last.
This is Book One of
Two Chance Texas books. Of Sam’s 5
siblings, one runs the family ranch, one runs a Detective Agency, one is
missing, one died as a child and the baby sister was stolen by an aunt when she
was only four. In my opinion, there is
enough material in the Chance family background to write four more books, not
just one! There so many hints about the
Chance family, there is no way I can think of that they can all be resolved in
just one more short book.
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