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"Strokes every Nerve"

This is a book that I could easily sum up with one word: Excellent. Excellent grit. Excellent vulnerability. Excellent suspense. And excellent voice. All neatly packaged in a drama that strokes every nerve and emotion.

Rebecca Montgomery lost her younger sister to a terrible tragedy. But as a San Antonio Detective, she's off the case. Her superiors know she's too close, too personal, even she knows it, but she can't let it go.

Into the middle of her investigation, saunters one Diego Galvan. Handsome, cultured. Rebecca doesn't know what to make of him. Is he a minor or major player in the crimes? He's definitely hanging out with the wrong side. One thing she does know is he has her libido working overtime. "If those eyes lurked in a mug book or in a database, she'd know them on sight. Deep brown honey melting under a July sun. Was that an eye color?" she muses at their first meeting.

The further she gets into the investigation, the closer she gets to him, but as she gets too close, the danger and suspense level ratchets up, notch by heart-stopping notch.

This is writing at its best. The kind that takes your emotions and intelligence on a wild ride and doesn't let go until its finished with you. And I don't think Jordan Dane is anywhere near finished with us.

reviewed by: Clover Autrey, author

Reviewed by Clover Autrey
Posted March 8, 2008

A relentless detective with the San Antonio Police Department is barred from an investigation into the disappearance and murder of her younger sister and forced to take another assignment. Skeletal remains buried in the wall of an old theatre destroyed by arson make an intriguing new case. But when the bones turn out to be of a woman, close in age to her sister, the hunt for a killer gets personal—a vendetta for justice.

A seductive enforcer to the mob, with secrets of his own, stands between the detective and a powerful man she believes is linked to the murder. Will the reluctant henchman become an ally or betray her to his treacherous 'benefactor'? Drawn into the sinister world of human trafficking, the modern-day slave trade, the detective unravels a grim trail of destroyed lives—leaving her little hope for vindication in the death of her sister and a nameless young woman buried alive.

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