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Joani
Brannigan-Estivez loved her stepmother’s partner, DEA Agent David
Devereau,
with all her young girl’s heart. But as
time moved on and David made it known she was too young for him, Joani
moved on
with her life and married Miguel Estivez.
But married life proved far from what Joani every
expected and her
marriage became dangerous, deceitful, loveless and estranged. When Joani wakes up one morning, after a
party that Miguel persuaded her to attend, she finds Miguel floating
face down
in the pool with a gun-shot wound and she is the one holding the gun. Joani flees the scene, heading to the one man
who broke her heart yeas ago with a good-bye note and a bouquet of
roses…
DEA Agent,
David Devereau has always hoped for another chance with Joani. Walking away from her years ago was the
hardest thing he had ever done. But now
the woman he’s always loved is fighting for her own life, determined to
discover what really happened on the night her estranged husband was
murdered
and try to remember what really happened.
David is determined to clear Joani’s name and will
stop at nothing to
show her just how much he cares.
Can David
and Joani find the murderer before it’s too late? Can
the love that they felt for one another
years ago, be enough to heal old wounds and be the beginning of a
future
together?
Send Me No Roses by Irene Estep sends a
reader
scrambling to her publishers for more of her great ‘who-done-its’. Once again, the reader is left guessing and
second-guessing themselves while trying to uncover a murderer. Despite the knowing that David and Joani had
feelings for one another, the romance is one the down low, with the
suspense
being dominate within this story. Ms.
Estep
blends the romance and suspense fluently and masterfully.
The
connecting ‘prequel’ to Send Me No
Roses is Conner’s Back (available at LTDBooks).
Each book definitely stands on its own, but
we met Joani and David in Conner’s
Back (Joani’s Dad’s story – who we also met in Overprotected)
and it’s even better to have the full extent
of David and Joani’s past if one reads Conner’s
Back before Send Me No Roses,
though it’s not necessary to fully enjoy this story.
These stories are perfect examples of Ms. Estep’s
amazing writing talent in the romantic suspense genre.
Joani and David in Send Me No Roses
are an absolute delight and a thrill a
minute. For great romantic suspense,
don’t miss Irene Estep’s stories!
Reviewed by
Tracey West for The Road to Romance
April 14, 2004
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