Jackson's Woman

Dates with Destiny #1

by Maggie Price

He'd always been a hunter. But now federal agent Jackson Castle wasboth savior and prey, tracking a deadly killer who had targeted the womanhe'd loved and lost. But first he had to convince her to open her heart tohim all over again.Claire Munroe had put her stormy affair with Jackson behind her twoyears ago. Now he'd returned, bringing danger to her door, rocking hersecure life. Ill-prepared to confront the man who'd stolen her heart, Claire had to decide which posed a greater threat--their reignited passion, or the murderer who hunted them both....

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

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

[Mojca · Rating 3 out of 5]

An antique shop owner has to deal with her past and the man she left behind two years ago. The man who reappeared in her life to save it.

I have no clue why romance heroines always abandon the yummy, sexy, tall, dark, handsome, hot guy who loves them enough to propose, because they want to put down roots. I think you can put down roots wherever you can as long as you have said guy stand beside you.
Well, the heroine in this story abandoned the secret government agent hero, because of all the hang-ups from her childhood spent living with her mother in a pink van. Go figure.
Lucky for her, someone wanted her dead - as revenge against the hero - and said hero came barging into her life after two years determined to protect her.

Unfortunately, I didn't detect much sparkage with the heroine running hot and cold (set in marrying a boring banker!), and they severely lacked in chemistry for me to actually enjoy this romantic suspense - emphasis on romantic - story.
But the tension and suspenseful buildup to the big showdown (that fizzled somewhat - I definitely expected more) was good enough, and the hero yummy enough to hold my attention. Now, if only the heroine would've been one of the two friends Claire surrounded herself with.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Suspense

[Hpitcher]

pretty good.