Barbara L. (Barbllm) reviewed on 6/8/2013 + 241 more book reviews

For a book that is described as riveting inspirational romance the romance plot seems shoehorned it. FBI agent Jackson McGraw is trying to locate a witness to a mob hit, a single mother named Eloise. Shes been inside the Witness Protection Program for years after giving up her baby daughter (now named Kristen), however, the mob seeks retaliation for her testifying against a don and putting him in prison.

Jackson, meanwhile, has been receiving information from the mob via a mole nicknamed the Veiled Lady because she always meets Jackson in disguise. Jacksons brother Micah, a federal marshal, also suspects someone in his office of being a mole and feeding information to the mob about Eloises whereabouts; both of these make good subplots and move the story along.

The suspense is very well done; Eloise is properly frightened, even though she owns a lovable guard dog named Duffy, a German shepherd. Roses begin appearing on her doorstep, a sign that the mob is close bythe Mafioso in question grew them in a greenhouse. Adding to the suspense is another villain, a crooked cop who beats his wife named Randall Parker. He comes between Jackson and the mob, seeking information from Eloise about his recently deceased wife, Melanie, who was Eloises employee.

The romance between Jackson and Eloise never seems realistic, always forced and unnatural. There are a couple of moments towards the climax where my eyes nearly rolled back into my head (who really is the Veiled Lady? Will Eloise ever meet her biological daughter?) because of the almost laughable situations the characters found themselves in. Not bad for a suspense novel, but pretty bad for a romance.

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