This story wasn't as engaging to me as Morgan's other books. It has a solid story, and I enjoyed the light mystery as the characters work to uncover secrets from the past, however, I didn't really connect with the characters at all. Doesn't help that Marc had trust issues and Torie was still keeping secrets from him towards the end of the book.

The writing also seemed a bit different. The suspicious part of me wants to know if this was ghost-written, but maybe Morgan was just trying a slightly different writing voice? I had trouble with some of the scenes (don't know if that's the right word for it) moving too fast. Torie would be in one place and moving along to another place after the paragraph. I had to stop to reread it because I wasn't sure what just happened.

Then there was this scene: Marc needed to borrow Billy's motorcycle in order to reach Torie and rescue her. Billy was horrified of the idea of his bike riding on sand, but Marc said there is a compacted trail, plus he needs to save Torie. Billy then said, "Oh. Well okay then."

Srsly. Not only was that dialogue lame, but it was totally unnecessary. This is why I believe this might have been ghost written, because a writer writing categories as long as Morgan has wouldn't waste the small word count limit on unnecessary dialogue. (Then again I could be wrong...) ( )