Killing Game
Felicity HeatonContemporary romance
Available from Linden Bay Romance
ISBN: 1-905393-24-5
January 2006
| Lily has dropped everything in her life to follow across the country the man she thought loved her, only to find him with another woman. Disillusioned at her own naiveté, she flees out into the pouring rain. In the middle of the night, standing on a street corner thinking about what to do, with no money and no place to go; she hears a shot…a gunshot. Stunned by what she'd heard, she goes as if in a daze with Cain, when he appears next to her and says that she needs to get away. A stranger in the middle of the night. Cain realizes after just a short time that his initial urge to find out what she might have seen actually has more to do with his own desire to protect this young runaway, as she calls herself. He finds his emotional walls crumbling, a man who is known not to have any emotions at all, an asset in his line of work.
The scene where the movie Leon is mentioned had me chuckling; I'd pictured that film already after seeing the plot, though the age difference is wider in that film. This is a great novel, similar theme or otherwise, just feeling the walls crumble and Cain become touched by his human side again, was warming. You find yourself really hoping that the story will turn out right and he will have a chance, though it seems just about impossible. The love he feels for Lily is breathtaking, his anguish over the bad he sees in himself, what conflict for this very human man. An absolutely wonderful piece of romance!
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Reviewer: Glenda K. Bauerle |
