Secondary Target

Sleep? What sleep? I pulled up this file to try a chapter or two at 11:30 pm and turned out the lights at 2:30 am on a Monday morning! I literally couldn't put it down until I couldn't see the screen anymore!

Carina doesn't even know her dad has her carefully shielded from their past. When he realized he couldn't solve the murders of her mother and brother, he put her in his truck and they vanished. She was just a child back then and life has been peaceful in their new Kentucky home—until now. She's followed her dreams and opened her own business despite having moved past so much personal loss, including her boyfriend's kid brother, whose death drove the two of them apart. But Brady's just left the military now, and it looks like he's going to be her only hope to catch the diabolical stalker who's after her now.

I loved the super-twisty mystery angle and the clues Carina and Brady try to assemble together as they attempt to figure out who's after them before he switches to a kill game. As a veteran mystery reader, I counted only two clues that pointed directly to the real killer, with everything else being clear only in retrospect. It was so tense watching the stalker toy with them while he waged his campaign of terror, especially when he started killing people close to them. Eek!

I really can't wait for the second book, as I liked both of those characters in this one.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free reading copy. A favorable review was not required.