Thank you to Dreamscape Media, NetGalley, and Laura Griffin for an advanced listening copy. All opinions are my own!
Y'all. I loved this book and was SO pleasantly surprised by it. I wasn't really sure what to expect going in to reading it (other than seeing the words romantic thriller and being sold) but ended up finding an author I plan to read more from!
I live in Texas so I loved the descriptions of a small Texas town. Mezcal margaritas, tacos, and desert landscapes made the story even more fun to read (can Cuervo be a real town please?!). The story itself picked up pretty quickly once I fell in love with Ava and Huck and the mystery they had on their hands. The mystery developed at the same time as Ava's relationship with a local detective and I loved the way the two different story lines intertwined and kept the pace of the book going. I also absolutely loved reading about Ava's relationship with her dog Huck. It was such a sweet and fun part of the book!
I absolutely recommend this book for fans of small town romance and crime thrillers. You will absolutely love this one, I promise!
Content Rating: R (due to content about murder and 1 open door scene)
Synopsis:
When a cold case in Texas leads to a sinister string of disappearances, a newcomer to the small town helps a detective piece together the clues in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up with her father, who raised search-and-rescue dogs, in rural Texas and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she’s perplexed, but she carefully photographs it all the same.
All Grant Wycoff can see when he looks at Ava is a city slicker—with her designer jeans and shiny car—who has no business on a serious team made of seasoned outdoorsmen and retired cops. But when she tells him of her findings on the trail, he sees there’s more to her than meets the eye.
Ava’s discovery reminds Grant of the unsolved case of a young woman who went missing two years ago. As they look into the campsite further, another woman disappears under odd circumstances. With time running out, Ava and Grant must work against the brutal heat from both the Texas sun and their own electric chemistry to solve the case.
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