... written by Mary T. Burton, published in 2016. Found at the library as a boxed set of Cd's, and listened to while driving to Decatur several times in the past week. Bizarre to think that I made three trips to Atlanta in just over a week. Making me think I should go ahead and find a job there since I seem to be commuting on a semi-regular basis?
The primary character in the story is Riley Tatum, who is a state Trooper in Virginia. She has a shadowy past, a runaway as a teenager trying to avoid a bad situation at home after her mother died and step father became aggressive, overbearing. She lived on the streets in New Orleans for a short time, and ended up with a blank period in her life of about seven days, then got off a bus in Virginia with no knowledge of the recent past. She was given an opportunity to stay in a shelter, work, and returned to school, eventually applying for a law enforcement position.
Her missing days, mysterious past comes back to haunt her when a young girl is found dead, under suspicious circumstances. Riley struggles with trust issues, learned to keep her personal life closed up, determined to be self-sufficient, independent. She encounters a man who works for a private security firm, that had a small part in her police training. This guy, Bowman, is determined to protect Riley, finds himself attracted to her, though she is resistant to his efforts and desire to help. Spoiler: a couple of steamy sex scenes inserted within the mystery/who-dun-it.
I listened to the recording while traveling, so it was stop-and-start over a week or more, with long breaks, making it difficult to follow the story line at times. But well written, with characters that made you want to help them out, as circumstances would get tense, and desperate situations arose. Even though I was listening rather than actually looking at the print, it was a real 'page turner'.
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