On Dangerous Ground

Oklahoma City Police Department #4

by Maggie Price

Grant Pierce and Sky Milano. They were a formidable team, the homicide detective and the forensic chemist. Once Grant had wanted their partnership to be more, but they'd tried romance - and failed. Murder brought them together. A homicide in which the sole suspect was a man sitting on death row. The confounding case landed their careers on the line, while their irrepressible attraction made confronting the past inescapable...and becomming lovers unavoidable.

Genres: Harlequin

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Maggie Price turned to crime at the age of twenty-two. That's when she went to work at the Oklahoma City Police Department. As a civilian crime analyst, she evaluated suspects' methods of operation during the commission of robberies and sex crimes, and developed profiles on those suspects. During her tenure at OCPD, Maggie stood in lineups, snagged assignments to homicide task forces, established procedures for evidence submittal, even posed as the wife of an undercover officer in the investigation of a fortune teller.

Drawing on her twelve years experience in law enforcement, Maggie Price penned her debut novel, PRIME SUSPECT. One week after Silhouette Books acquired the novel of romance and intrigue, the Romance Writers of America awarded PRIME SUSPECT its prestigious Golden Heart Award for Best Romantic Suspense.

A RITA award finalist, Maggie is the winner of Romantic Times Magazine's career achievement award in series romantic suspense, a Booksellers' Best Award for romantic suspense and a National Readers Choice Award for romantic suspense.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, the romance was compelling and so was the suspense.
Over the past books we have seen Detective Grant Pierce and the attraction he feels towards forensic expert Sky Milano and they tried dating but it ended up in Sky freezing and telling him she was raped and asking him to let her go, so he did.

Six months later Grant's partner is dead(of natural causes) and he is drowning his sorrows when in walks the woman he thought could be the one. Grant's money and looks always made dating easy but Sky she made him feel things and then she tells him that the DNA in a fresh new case matches the one that helped them put a man on death row.

For Sky the rape changed her life, she learnt self-defense and thought her life was good and she had been past it when six months ago she flipped on Grant and hurt him, so she finally got help and she believes she has made progress but working together with Grant makes her yearn for more but she doesn't trust herself.

I enjoyed seeing Sky's struggle, she didn't want to hurt Grant but talking about what happened was painful for her and the the therapist she went to in college was inept but she finally does open up to Grant, ready to put the past behind.

Grant loves Sky and their working together makes him realize that he is no longer willing to maintain his distance and Sky's past tears him apart and he contemplates doing things he knows are wrong to get her justice and I liked how we see his internal struggle. Sky accepted what happened but for Grant it was fresh and he felt helpless and then Sky told him she wanted him to leave it in the past and let it not effect the future, and we see these issues dealt with in the book.

The romance had me rooting for them and the suspense was engaging as well.

[★¸. • * ° *Jillie* ° *•.¸☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was a good book. Enjoyed the angst between the H/H ..