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"An exciting category romance"

Robert Haine and business partner Larry Benzer believe someone is sabotaging their company, Four Corners Imports. Desperate to stop the destruction to their reputations and the waste of precious money used to cover arson and losses, Robert hires former New York Police Officer turned private investigator Dana Morancy.

Dana agrees with Robert's assessment that the sabotage is most likely an inside job. She explains about her cover, Dana Mayfield, organizational design consultant hired by Robert to look into the "run of bad luck". As Dana works closely on uncovering the identity of the criminal, she falls in love with Robert's nephew who reciprocates her feelings. However, family secrets once revealed will make it impossible for the sleuth and the finance manager to share a permanent relationship.

UNEXPECTED OUTCOME is an exciting Manhattan romantic suspense novel that is at its best when the story line focuses on the undercover investigation. When the plot spins off into a genetics issue, it loses steam, as many readers will believe the tale ran thirty pages too long. Dana is a great rounded heroine struggling to overcome her belief that she failed herself and her father when she quit NYPD. Noah breaks the image of the bottom line accountant by actively becoming Dana's partner on the case and courting the female sleuth. Together they are dynamic leaving readers with the entertaining pleasure expected from a Dawn Stewardson novel.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted February 19, 2002

Dana Morancy is a woman with an emotionally shattered past. She followed in the career footsteps of the father she adores and joined the New York Police Department.

However, after four years on the job, she was involved in a "suicide by cop" and took an innocent life. Uncertain whether she'd ever be able to fire a gun again, she left the force and became a private investigator.

In Unexpected Outcome, she falls in love with a client, Noah Haine. And when his life is threatened, she finds the strength to overcome her internal demons in order to save him.

But their happily ever after may still elude them. Because Dana's father has been keeping an earth shattering secret.