Descent into Danger

by Shannon Greenland

Co-owner of an Outfitters in New Mexico, Madeline Theros spends her days leading kayaking, hiking, and spelunking expeditions. It's the perfect life. Until one day a freak accident drops her down a shaft into an uncharted cave. The dream of a lifetime? There's only one thing standing between Corey Grainge and the vice presidency of a land development company. All he has to do is strip-mine thousand of New Mexico acres, including the uncharted cave. Everything happens for a reason. Locked in a battle over the land, Madeline and Corey realize they share a history that neither understands. And someone doesn't want them together, and will execute any means to keep them apart.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Shannon Greenland is the award-winning and best-selling author of Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult books. She grew up in Tennessee where she dreaded all things reading and writing. She didn’t even read her first book for enjoyment until she was twenty-five. After that, she was hooked! When she’s not writing, she's usually traveling or hanging out with a rogue armadillo that frequents her backyard.

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed some other books by this author, so this one caught me by surprise. Besides the overload of descriptive sexual content, I completely missed the fact that the antagonist was posing as someone else throughout the book. I was confused, wondering where he was, since he was never mentioned by any of the other characters yet he interacted with them frequently. The author did too good of a job hiding his duplicity. And even if I had gotten that, finding out whom he had disguised himself as at the end of the book was disturbing. I think the book had good potential in the plot line - if she'd given a few clues about the disguise, and if she'd made it a little cleaner, I'd give it a higher rating, since the plot itself was interesting.

[Susanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't finish this book. I read the beginning was unimpressed and then read the end just to find out what happened. I wasn't sorry to have missed everything in the middle.

[Abby · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only got part of the way through this book because it was nasty!