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Book Review of A Dark Lure (Dark Lure, Bk 1)

A Dark Lure (Dark Lure, Bk 1)
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Twelve years ago, the Watt Lake Killer kidnapped Sarah Baker, locked her up for months while he terrorized and raped her, then turned her loose to hunt her like an animal. Somehow Sarah managed to escape. The culprit was caught and sent to prison where he eventually died. Suffering from PSTD, Sarah lost her husband, her child, and her family over the incident.

Changing her name to Olivia West, she starts her life over as a fishing guide at the Broken Bar Ranch. Life on the ranch lets her physical and mental wounds begin to heal. But a former cop believes that the wrong man was arrested for the Watt Lake murders. He is trying to lure the killer out in the open and using Olivia as bait. Olivia once again finds her life on the line.

This is my first book by this author, but it won't be my last. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what was going on in the story. But once I got everything straight, this book was very hard to put down. The story had a good balance between the suspense portion of the story and the romantic elements. I really liked that Olivia found she could trust the owner's estranged son, Cole McDonough, when he came to the ranch to visit his sick father. There were a lot of twists in the story. I figured most of them out before they were revealed, but it didn't affect my feelings for this book. My rating: 4.5 Stars.