'When The Storm
Breaks' is a romantic thriller set in Washington D.C.
Marie Claire Lambert is heading home from a late night appointment and
stumbles across a serial killer finishing off his latest victim. When he spots her, she takes flight, looking for
the nearest refuge. Before she can reach the
door to an all-night ladies club, she slips on the stairs in the rain and is knocked
unconscious. As she drifts in and out, she is
able to tell the people who find her she has witnessed a murder, but when she fully
regains consciousness, all memory of the event is blocked.
Will she remember who the killer is before he can kill his only witness?
Marie Claire is a
strong, independent, 30-year-old woman who knows how to take care of herself in the big
city. Her life is threatened by a serial
killer when she becomes his only witness, but all she can remember of that night is a
horrible smile on a face she saw in a picture. Retracing
the events of that evening, all leads point to the dating agency run by her friend and the
photos Claire was looking over before she saw the killer.
Sean Richter is the
detective assigned to protect Claire. One
look at her in the hospital and his interest in her goes beyond professional.
For Sean, his
struggle to maintain professionalism makes his job that much more difficult. He sends mixed signals to Claire, unable to deny
his attraction to her and yet forbidden to act on it.
They work together along with Claire’s close-knit group of friends to
identify the killer knowing that Claire is his next target.
This book was a
page-turner! The action was nonstop and the
tension between Sean and Claire was tangible. Ms.
Lowell’s ability to take us through the police investigation and the pratfalls of
avoiding the personal relationship were intense and realistic. A must read for fans of CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, this book was thrilling to the very end.
Reviewed by Karla
Brandenburg for The Road to Romance
October 3, 2003 |
