Alone in Forrester Rock
Amy MistrettaRomantic suspense
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-480-6
March 2007
| Tori has lost everything including her life after walking in on her fiancé's dirty dealings with the mob. For all purposes she's dead. Whisked away by the FEDs and placed in witness protection, she's given a new identity and sent hundreds of miles to a small town. She's a city girl from New York and completely out of her element, all alone. She has no choice but to make the best of what she has now and not dwell on what she had. Easier said than done when she's continually looking over her shoulder, comforted by the peace of the woods in which her new home stands on moment and terrified the next. She meets Walker, the drifter who himself had lived in the cabin frightens her, and he clearly has secrets of his own. Slowly she begins to put some level of trust in him and a relationship develops, fragile though it is. But someone knows who she is and wants to make sure she is really dead this time.
Alone In Forrester Rock is a romantic suspense and after the initial opening chapter there is very little suspense until the end. Because of this, the story slowed down and never gained momentum as one would expect in this sort of novel. It's rather more mainstream with an element of suspense and personally had this been the case I would have looked at this book in a totally different light. It's rather like expecting one thing and getting something else instead. In all honestly I never felt connected to the characters and the work didn't have the power to move me. That's not to say that someone else would feel the same. Having a cabin in a wood myself, I did feel her connection to the peace and tranquility that resonates from a cabin in such a location. That I could relate to and could clearly picture as it was a nice touch.
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Reviewer: Abi |
