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Thankfully this story was only category length or I would have DNF after about the fifth chapter. What I liked: the hero (Hunter) was a great character both as an individual and part of the couple and I liked the other US Marshals that are on Hunter's team and their interactions with one another while doing the job. The kid was cute, but if the story didn't have the kid in, the story would have been exactly the same. I thoroughly disliked the heroine - what a whiny, naïve idiot who is still in love with her evil dead husband. She was more like a Christian version of a NA heroine. The religious aspect of the story was done with a deft touch for about 2/3 of the book and then it went into over load. But what I most hated about this book is that it ended on a cliff hanger and basically was used to set up the rest of the series (written by different authors about the same US Marshal team). This was not a complete story; the author dropped a plot twist about how this was bigger than the dead husband's gambling debts to the organized crime boss but would not say what it was about or how deep the dead husband's actions went to the bigger crime. The "I love yous" came out of the thin air real quick at the end.GRRRR....
I read the excerpt for the next book in the series and was not impressed. So I am getting off this series train now. 1.5 stars.
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