MissTaken

by Kerri Nelson

Tabitha Stuart is a work-a-holic who may live in the city that never sleeps but manages to spend her Friday nights behind the desk at the accounting firm of Donaldson & Franks. On a snowy February night, she reminisces over her recent New Year’s resolutions. She’s worked hard to make partner in her firm, but now she’s resolved to make her personal life more exciting. She wants to be more like her jet setter, risk taking sister. As Tabby heads home for the night, she is abducted from her office’s parking garage and held captive by a sexy stranger in an Atlantic City Casino penthouse. Her captor’s boss demands that she return the half million dollars that she stole from him. As her life spirals out of control, she must discover why she was taken and how she has ended up in a world that is not her own. She must solve the mystery, save her own life, and resist the sexual temptations she feels for her mysterious captor. To survive this adventure, she can’t afford to make mistakes.

Kindle Edition

First published March 10, 2009

About the author

Kerri Nelson survived a fifteen year career in the legal field and then took her passion for crime solving to the page. But her journey to become a mystery author took a decade long detour into the world of romance where she penned twenty two novels and novellas in various sub-genres.

Born and raised a true southern belle, Kerri holds many useful secrets: how to bake a killer peach cobbler; how to charm suspects with proper batting of the eyelashes; and how to turn your parasol into a handy weapon.

Kerri is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America which includes various volunteer positions such as Board Member at Large and Daphne Published Contest Category Coordinator of Kiss of Death RWA (Chapter for Romantic Suspense Authors).

Learn more about Kerri and her new Working Stiff Mystery Series, at her website: www.KerriNelson.com

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kerribookwriter


Kerri is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America as well as numerous chapters including Futuristic Fantasy & Paranormal Writers and the Kiss of Death Chapter for mystery/suspense authors.

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve noticed a number of cheap short books on Amazon, e-books and paperback versions of e-books that can be read in a single session at the computer. I wonder if the e-publishing world is blessing us with more scope for different lengths of reading and writing.

I won an e-copy of Miss Taken by Kerri Nelson recently. It has a warning about sexually explicit scenes and adult language, meant only for mature audiences. I guess my gray hairs might make me mature, but I concluded this book wasn’t one to read while sons or husband might creep up behind me. Still it’s fairly short—-only 68 pages—-so finding a safe time to bring it up on my computer wasn’t really so hard.

The format of the book is quite intriguing. A young woman, regretting the paths not taken, ends up on a path she really doesn’t want to take. The dangerous stranger who kidnaps her is too good-looking to be evil. And when he changes his mind and rescues her the chase is on.

The chase of course, since this is romance as well as adventure, takes a rather long and explicit detour to the bedroom. And the tension is released, even as it continues to build. From bedroom back to danger and flight and then… Well, suffice it to say, the ending satisfies, in all the ways the author has led you to expect.

So no, it’s not my usual style. And it’s not what I’d buy in paper and leave lying around the house. But I enjoyed the read. This e-book format seems to have other advantages besides length, and I might look forward to finding more unexpected genres as I search the internet. It’s certainly nice to know authors can break the rules and come up with something interesting and new.