This book starts out at midnight in a mortuary when a naked, beat up corpse suddenly grabs janitor Summer's hand and drags her into the middle of a life and death chase through the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. Steve is not dead, but he is extremely frightening. She fights and spars with him and calls him Frankenstein and does every thing she can to get away from him. When she eventually gets back to her house she finds the men who tried to kill him are there and figures out they are a worse bet than he is.

Most of the book is the two of them on the run while they try to escape from the bad guys while the authorities have a BOLO for the two of them for crimes the baddies committed. Their relationship happens fast during their run but here it was believable. Except for a few scenes told by a ghost (it might sound a little hokey but it worked pretty well), all the scenes are the two of them together which makes great reading and helps with the falling in love quick believability. There is a mystery running through the book about just why the bad guys are after them, who they are and how can they be brought to justice.

The characters are different than most romance heroes/heroines. The heroine is 36. She used to be a lingerie model and she used to be married to the local police chief's son. After both of those things went south she started her own janitorial service. She is feisty and brave but not stupid. The hero, Steve, has definitely done wrong but he is sorry and seems very human. I absolutely loved him. He was a great character. I really believed that he cared for her.

"I think that maybe, just maybe, you were sent to rescue me from outer darkness," he said quietly. "When I first encountered you, in that funeral home, I didn't really care if I lived or died. Now I do."


The book is fast paced, exciting and well plotted. The dialog is good and my attention didn't flag at all. I really enjoyed the sniping they did at each other before they knew each other well.
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Rocambolesque mais agréable comme lecture de plage. ( )

With a dip into a more paranormal theme than I expected this murder mystery/romantic suspense easily held my attention and made reading the entire book in a day and a half an easy enough thing to do.

Summer McAffee, former lingerie model turned self-employed cleaner for hire, was creeped out enough having to clean a mortuary by herself at 2:00 a.m. However, she was soon to discover there are things more terrifying than corpses, namely, getting kidnapped by one and being chased by men with guns determined to make her meet the same fate.

I really enjoyed a lot of things about this story, especially just how Summer meets her very own Frankenstein and Muffy's contributions to their get away. There were a couple parts that bugged me, mostly related to the religious parts worked in (as mentioned in past reviews, religion in romance novels is not something I'm partial to.) The other thing is that I am hard pressed to believe that anyone in the heat of the moment says "bleeping" as opposed to swearing. It was such a ridiculous thing and really took me out of the moment. Another thing that didn't bother me but might bug some are the dated references. A lot of these I'm quite familiar with having grown up in that era but the younger generation may find a lot of it going right over their heads.

Insofar as a romantic suspense novel goes overall I found this to be one of the more enjoyable ones I've read and I'd highly suggest it to anyone looking for an introduction to the genre that wouldn't mind the slightly supernatural twist. ( )

SUmmer McAffee is busy at her job cleaning a funeral home when one of the cadavers grabs her. Steve Calhoun is on the run after his investigation of a corrupt police force turns dangerous. ( )