A child's abduction leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Detective Rose has worked on difficult cases before, but this abduction is unique. No evidence. No witnesses. No leads. It’s a nightmare scenario for any law enforcement officer. Unsure of why the family was targeted, Rose races against the clock to recover the missing child before the kidnapper strikes again, a scenario Rose is desperate to stop.
Forgotten Secrets
In Doveport, teenaged girls disappear without a trace.
Bex Lennon has a gift, but using it could mean catastrophe. When her best friend's teenaged daughter disappears, Bex must confront her fears head-on. For the first time in fifteen years, she accesses a hidden part of herself to uncover clues about the girl's disappearance. The risk might be deadly.
Unbelievable, trite, and the dialogue was horrible.
A newly widowed woman has had a feeling she's being stalked for the past few weeks. After much mental debate, she decides she's being silly and oversensitive since her husband's death. She has to move on and have a normal life! (WHATEVER) So, she goes out with a guy friend one night and leaves her son with a babysitter (after securing said sitter via text). Oookay....
To her surprise, if not the reader's, her son is missing when she gets home. Oh shock, oh horror.
The female detective who comes to her home after the call to 911, has been conveniently set up beforehand to be a loving mother and wife who regrettably (according to the narrative) loves her job as much as she loves her family, so her super-supportive husband stays home to mind the kiddies while she goes off to be the Big Detective. She is torn between her love of her job and her love of her family (ever notice this never happens with MALE detectives?), but charges on anyway. And when this distraught mother with the missing son turns up, good golly, she'll do everything to find the poor woman's missing little one, but wow is she glad that SHE isn't in that situation. (Well, aren't we all.)
I deleted the book from Kindle shortly thereafter as the detective and her male partner began interviewing suspects and the kids from the boy's school (to see if anyone had seen anything the day of the snatching) and then they started with the pedantic "Well, her mean mother-in-law DID say she's too friendly and has too wide a social circle to keep her son safe, but by gosh, she seems to have her heart in the right place." "You're right, , she's a goodhearted woman who, while she may be naive, would never knowingly let someone harmful close to her son."
I gave those books 2 stars because, well, the author has put some work on them, but honestly they’re pretty bad. I didn’t like the first one, it was absolutely far fetched with totally unrealistic characters but even though, I decided to give book 2 a try, but when I was about halfway I decided to abandon it because it was obvious it was as bad and unrealistic as the first one. As for the third book I decided to be kind with myself by not even starting it.
I was not familiar with this author, but I was very pleased. Characters are interesting and believable . Hazel Holmes, thank you. This my first book with you. I promise that it will not be my last. Thank you, Doris Wood. Not always smoothe sailing, but well worth the rough seas.
I thought the story was well written. I've never read a story about pirates before or even held any interest in the subject, but this book was different. It held my interest all the way through to the end; and I never knew was gonna happen to the characters from one moment to the next. Bravo!