JUNIOR HAS A SECRET is the eleventh instalment in LR Jones (aka Lisa Renee Jones) contemporary, adult LILAH LOVE suspense series focusing on FBI Special Agent Lila Love-Mendez, and her husband, businessman /Cartel heir Kane Mendez. JUNIOR HAS A SECRET should not be read as a stand alone as there is an ongoing premise throughout the series.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
SOME BACKGROUND: Throughout the series, Lilah Love has been looking into an organization known as The Society, a powerful group that controls many of the politicians, law enforcement personnel, and the rich and famous, and it is this group that may or may not be targeting the people at the top, one of which is her estranged father, a man running for Governor, a man with connections to the people in control.
Told from first person perspectives (Lilah) JUNIOR HAS A SECRET picks up after the events and cliff hanger of AGENT VS ASSASSIN follows in the wake of the election of Lilah’s estranged father as the new governor of New York but Lilah’s father’s campaign handler appears to have gone rogue, and when her father demands to be taken to the ‘new’ governor’s mansion, all does not go according to plan when death and destruction arrive before everyone else. As Lilah begins to search for the truth, someone else is determined to take down our story line heroine.
The world building follows several pathways including the fractured relationship between Lilah and her father, a man who cares only for himself; an assassin who is willing to take down the people taking aim at our story line heroine, and the return of the head of the Mendez Cartel, who has plans to destroy our story line couple.
Once again, there is another large ensemble of intriguing yet questionable secondary and supporting characters most of whom are keeping secrets: Lilah’s bodyguard Jay, Kane’s bodyguard Kit; Lilah’s brother Andrew; NYPD Chief Houston, and Lilah’s IT guru Jeff ‘TicTac’ Landers, most of whom are the hunter/gatherers of Lilah’s investigations; Lilah’s father, the new governor elect, and his ‘handler’ Pocher, and Lilah’s brother Andrew. We are introduced to an assassin who goes by Ghost, who is always one step ahead of our story line heroine; and the return of Kane’s father Roberto Mendez.
JUNIOR HAS A SECRET is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, obsession and madness, fracture family dynamics, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is compelling and riveting but covers less than twenty-four hours in the life. The characters are desperate and determined. JUNIOR HAS A SECRET ends on a cliff hanger, you have been warned.
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