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Hidden Identity
He “died” to save the woman he loved.
Now her amnesia might save them both…
Faking his death was the only way for Adam Parish to stay alive. But when a suspicious helicopter crash reunites him with the woman he had to leave behind, Adam knows they’re both in danger. Unfortunately, Chelsea Pierce doesn’t remember who he is—or that she’s carrying his child. On the run from merciless killers, Adam vows to protect Chelsea and their baby. But once he reveals the truth, will he lose the woman he loves a second time?
Now her amnesia might save them both…
Faking his death was the only way for Adam Parish to stay alive. But when a suspicious helicopter crash reunites him with the woman he had to leave behind, Adam knows they’re both in danger. Unfortunately, Chelsea Pierce doesn’t remember who he is—or that she’s carrying his child. On the run from merciless killers, Adam vows to protect Chelsea and their baby. But once he reveals the truth, will he lose the woman he loves a second time?
- GenresRomantic Suspense
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2019
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About the author
Alice Sharpe
172 books28 followersI was born in Sacramento, California. As a child, I wrote plays for the neighbor kids and invited their parents to performances. As I got older, I started my own family newspaper, handwritten and hand delivered, for the extortion price of 25 cents. Eventually, I moved into writing angst-ridden poems and journals – lots of them. Right after graduating from high school, I married the love of my life whom I met while walking on a beach in Northern California. We had two children, spent years building a house, juggling pets and living on sailboats. All the while, I wrote stories but I never attempted to sell them.
When the kids started Junior High, I started marketing my writing. When my short stories were turned down by mainstream women's magazines, my mother suggested I try a confession magazine. I sold my first story to them within two weeks. What a feeling of accomplishment! I walked on air for about a week! It took me almost two years to sell my next story, but after that, I went on to sell over two dozen to the various confession magazines. The experience of learning to get a story off the ground within a sentence or two was invaluable as was the connection I made with one of the editors. When she moved to a small book publisher, I sent her a completed manuscript which she bought. I wrote twenty books for her, mostly romances with a few mysteries thrown in. During this time, I learned about pacing, plot development and characterization. There is nothing a writer can do to improve their craft that trumps the actual setting of oneself in a chair and writing. Eventually I sold a manuscript to Silhouette. Now, forty books and many editors later, I've written for Avalon, Silhouette, Kensington, and Harlequin Intrigue I am also still married to the love of my life and our two children have given us three wonderful grandchildren.
When the kids started Junior High, I started marketing my writing. When my short stories were turned down by mainstream women's magazines, my mother suggested I try a confession magazine. I sold my first story to them within two weeks. What a feeling of accomplishment! I walked on air for about a week! It took me almost two years to sell my next story, but after that, I went on to sell over two dozen to the various confession magazines. The experience of learning to get a story off the ground within a sentence or two was invaluable as was the connection I made with one of the editors. When she moved to a small book publisher, I sent her a completed manuscript which she bought. I wrote twenty books for her, mostly romances with a few mysteries thrown in. During this time, I learned about pacing, plot development and characterization. There is nothing a writer can do to improve their craft that trumps the actual setting of oneself in a chair and writing. Eventually I sold a manuscript to Silhouette. Now, forty books and many editors later, I've written for Avalon, Silhouette, Kensington, and Harlequin Intrigue I am also still married to the love of my life and our two children have given us three wonderful grandchildren.
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August 23, 2020
Chelsea Pierce is headed to a cabin she believes belonged to her husband Stephen, who has recently died, as a way to commemorate his passing. But the other passenger in the helicopter she's travelling in pulls a gun and the helicopter crashes!
As it turns out, Stephen is really Adam Parish, and he faked his death in order to keep Chelsea safe. He was in the witness protection program after testifying against a drug and child sex trafficker. The passenger who caused the helicopter to crash was an assassin on his way to take out Adam. Adam sees the crash from his cabin, and rescues Chelsea. However, when Chelsea comes to, she has amnesia! She can't remember anything about her life, including Adam, or the fact she's pregnant.
The two must go on the run, because Adam's attempt at faking his death hasn't worked, and people are still after him. Adam suspects it's the work of Devin Holton, the man he testified against. However, there's a hint of mystery behind the murder of Adam's mother many years ago. Could that somehow be playing into matters?
A great read, but as can be typical in this category, the thriller/suspense element is better handled than the romance. The amnesia angle didn't quite work, paired as it was with the second chance love story. Chelsea can't remember anything, including her own family, but can remember how to expertly fire a gun to get her and Adam out of a tricky situation? Didn't really ring true with me! I didn't get any sense of angst from Chelsea about not being able to remember anything. That should have been a high stakes element of the story, but she mostly just shrugs her shoulders and thinks, "I hope my memory comes back soon." There's also a lack of tension over the fact Adam repeatedly declares his love to Chelsea, and she must square this with the fact he lied to her and faked his death. I wanted more discussion of this. Chelsea just kind of gets over it.
But it was an exciting story. Adam and Chelsea are initially chased by whoever wants Adam dead, before they realise they need to fight back, and instead take a proactive stance and head back to the site of where all the trouble started to find out who really wants Adam dead. It made sure the action and suspense was steady from start to finish. It was also an obvious but nice metaphor for facing your past, which is what Chelsea needs to do in regards to her amnesia and trusting Adam again, and what Adam needs to do so he can stop spending his life on the run.
This felt like a real book, rather than something churned out for the Intrigue line, which is what a lot of them feel like. It would be interesting to see what Alice Sharpe could come up with if she wrote a full-length novel outside of category romance!
As it turns out, Stephen is really Adam Parish, and he faked his death in order to keep Chelsea safe. He was in the witness protection program after testifying against a drug and child sex trafficker. The passenger who caused the helicopter to crash was an assassin on his way to take out Adam. Adam sees the crash from his cabin, and rescues Chelsea. However, when Chelsea comes to, she has amnesia! She can't remember anything about her life, including Adam, or the fact she's pregnant.
The two must go on the run, because Adam's attempt at faking his death hasn't worked, and people are still after him. Adam suspects it's the work of Devin Holton, the man he testified against. However, there's a hint of mystery behind the murder of Adam's mother many years ago. Could that somehow be playing into matters?
A great read, but as can be typical in this category, the thriller/suspense element is better handled than the romance. The amnesia angle didn't quite work, paired as it was with the second chance love story. Chelsea can't remember anything, including her own family, but can remember how to expertly fire a gun to get her and Adam out of a tricky situation? Didn't really ring true with me! I didn't get any sense of angst from Chelsea about not being able to remember anything. That should have been a high stakes element of the story, but she mostly just shrugs her shoulders and thinks, "I hope my memory comes back soon." There's also a lack of tension over the fact Adam repeatedly declares his love to Chelsea, and she must square this with the fact he lied to her and faked his death. I wanted more discussion of this. Chelsea just kind of gets over it.
But it was an exciting story. Adam and Chelsea are initially chased by whoever wants Adam dead, before they realise they need to fight back, and instead take a proactive stance and head back to the site of where all the trouble started to find out who really wants Adam dead. It made sure the action and suspense was steady from start to finish. It was also an obvious but nice metaphor for facing your past, which is what Chelsea needs to do in regards to her amnesia and trusting Adam again, and what Adam needs to do so he can stop spending his life on the run.
This felt like a real book, rather than something churned out for the Intrigue line, which is what a lot of them feel like. It would be interesting to see what Alice Sharpe could come up with if she wrote a full-length novel outside of category romance!
February 27, 2019
This is a interesting story. Its a what if kinda situation. I found the beginning interesting for we meet Chelsea Pierce who has lost someone. The way the story is written it gives you a look at every possible situation something could happen. You meet the hero who is supposed to be dead but this is were the mystery begins and Adam Parish's story begins. Its a neat situation. You get to see 2 people meeting again in a unique situation. Then they are given a problem to deal with. Its a neat story with lots of suspense and action. The problem is a real possibility and needs to be sorted out. The ending is fun and unique. Its definitely worth a read.
March 28, 2021
Honestly the romance was the least interesting part of this book, so for the sake of this review please just accept that it happened.
My real beef with this book was that every single side character was fucking INSANE. Over the course of 250 horrifying pages we meet:
1. A man named "Whip" who I am supposed to trust despite the fact that he is name WHIP. W H I P. How can I trust any man who willingly lets himself be called (and also introduces himself as!!!) WHIP.
2. Bill the brother who is the wildest and most chaotic character I have ever read in literature (and I have read Inspector Hobbes -- which you should also read because those books are very fun). He is a *survivalist* who has "enough guns to take over a third-world country". That is, and this is an objective fact, waaaaaayyyyyyyyy too many guns. He has guns in his chicken coop!! Chickens very much do not need guns!! He is also shockingly blasé about some light murder, which leads me to believe that there are at least five dead bodies buried around his weird desert compound. On a less serial killer-y note, if you were going to be off the grid why would you choose the desert??? Gardening in a desert seems so difficult and the desert is hot and dry. Go live in a forest. You can be equally (if not more) isolated in some remote corner of Alaska or something. Anyway, my point is: Bill is 10000% feral and I live in fear that he will appear somewhere.
3. Aimee is like if you took every depiction of a racist rich lady with shady dealings and distilled them to 40% alcohol. She is BATSHIT. As far as I can tell, she learned Spanish exclusively to yell at her staff? And also assumed that a) all Latinx people in Arizona speak no English and b) all white-passing people in Arizona speak no Spanish. Which given that Spanish is the most popular second-language taught in American schools is a bold assumption. Also? The whole human trafficking subplot came out of nowhere. If you are going to through sex slavery into a romance novel I am going to need a whole lot more preparation for that tone shift.
4. The helicopter pilot who only appears in ten pages of this book, but introduces himself by saying "Heck, call me Bobby. Everyone calls me that except my ex-wife and you don't want to know the words she uses". !!!!! We just met!!!!! It is way too early in this relationship for you to be slagging off your ex-wife, good grief.
This book was a whole ass mess. The plot was a rollercoaster in the worst way and at no point did I understand what was happening. I still don't really know what happened. Don't read this book, it has no redeeming qualities.
My real beef with this book was that every single side character was fucking INSANE. Over the course of 250 horrifying pages we meet:
1. A man named "Whip" who I am supposed to trust despite the fact that he is name WHIP. W H I P. How can I trust any man who willingly lets himself be called (and also introduces himself as!!!) WHIP.
2. Bill the brother who is the wildest and most chaotic character I have ever read in literature (and I have read Inspector Hobbes -- which you should also read because those books are very fun). He is a *survivalist* who has "enough guns to take over a third-world country". That is, and this is an objective fact, waaaaaayyyyyyyyy too many guns. He has guns in his chicken coop!! Chickens very much do not need guns!! He is also shockingly blasé about some light murder, which leads me to believe that there are at least five dead bodies buried around his weird desert compound. On a less serial killer-y note, if you were going to be off the grid why would you choose the desert??? Gardening in a desert seems so difficult and the desert is hot and dry. Go live in a forest. You can be equally (if not more) isolated in some remote corner of Alaska or something. Anyway, my point is: Bill is 10000% feral and I live in fear that he will appear somewhere.
3. Aimee is like if you took every depiction of a racist rich lady with shady dealings and distilled them to 40% alcohol. She is BATSHIT. As far as I can tell, she learned Spanish exclusively to yell at her staff? And also assumed that a) all Latinx people in Arizona speak no English and b) all white-passing people in Arizona speak no Spanish. Which given that Spanish is the most popular second-language taught in American schools is a bold assumption. Also? The whole human trafficking subplot came out of nowhere. If you are going to through sex slavery into a romance novel I am going to need a whole lot more preparation for that tone shift.
4. The helicopter pilot who only appears in ten pages of this book, but introduces himself by saying "Heck, call me Bobby. Everyone calls me that except my ex-wife and you don't want to know the words she uses". !!!!! We just met!!!!! It is way too early in this relationship for you to be slagging off your ex-wife, good grief.
This book was a whole ass mess. The plot was a rollercoaster in the worst way and at no point did I understand what was happening. I still don't really know what happened. Don't read this book, it has no redeeming qualities.
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