Corporate attorney Erin Donovan has nothing on her mind except representing her clients to the best of her abilities. One fateful day, she shows an irritating new client, Carson Tierney, around the tenth floor space of her own building and her life takes an unforeseen direction.
Carson is an awe-inspiring woman by anyone's standards. Possessing genius-level intelligence that has allowed her to become a self-made millionaire of a computer software company, Carson still has a dark secret that could be her undoing.
When the two are thrust together to escape a deadly killer in a high-rise office building while a blizzard rages outside, they have no one to count on but each other. So begins an unexpected yet tender romance. However, unchecked love and desire isn't in their future. The murderer is still out there and he's coming for them. Will Carson's street-wise skills protect them both as Erin attempts to discover the killer's identity just as relentlessly as he is seeking their demise?
Born in California but raised in Texas, Susan joined the United States Marine Corps straight out of High School. After ten years and a lot of travel, she left the military and became a San Diego Deputy Sheriff. Retired from an on the job injury, Susan returned to Texas and began writing Star Trek Voyager fan fiction in 2002, but her imagination insisted on creating scenarios outside that genre. Today she still resides in North Texas with her two dogs and the five stray cats that adopted her. Her previous works, all seventy-two stories, can be found on her website. (from the publisher's website)
I loved this book so much. Both main characters were very distinctive. Although they had things in common, they had differences as well. The mystery element of the book was interesting as well and full of exciting moments. The relationship between the two main characters was beautiful and romantic. There are a few reasons I didn't give this book 5 stars. One reason is because the relationship between the main characters, while it was a good one, developed too quickly for my liking. I like the slow burn relationships more. Another reason is that although the mystery was exciting, the reader knowing the killer's motivations all along made it less interesting when the characters finally found them. I could have done without that part, personally. However, although this book was not perfect (what book is, really?) I thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good book to read.
I was very disappointed. The characters fell in love very quickly. They weren't very well developed. The dialog was not realistic. The string of situations was far fetched. But worst of all, there was zero chemistry between these two.