What a ride! Beginning with the first sentence, "Nineteen minutes before her brain and her body parted ways, Tara Beckley's concern was the cold," the twists and turns in this book just keep coming, up to the very end.
Tara was asked to be the student escort for a famous scientist who was visiting her campus. On the way from dinner to the lecture hall, the scientist began to behave oddly, looking out the back window of Tara's car as if checking for someone following them, asking Tara strange questions, and finally insisting she drop him off so he could walk to the lecture hall, despite her worries about him arriving late and getting her into trouble. When she parked to let him out, a vehicle suddenly slammed into them, killing the scientist and seriously injuring Tara.
Eventually doctors, and those hunting the scientist's mysterious cell phone, discover that Tara had locked-in syndrome. She was completely aware of everything going on around her; however, she was paralyzed and unable to let anyone know she was there inside her body. As Tara slowly relearned communication skills, the danger in which she was balanced continued to grow. Many people, for various reasons, wanted to know what Tara saw at the accident site and how much of it she remembered.
Abby Kaplan was a race car driver, turned stunt driver, turned insurance investigator. Still haunted by an accident when her boyfriend, an up and coming movie star, was killed while she was driving, she returned to Maine to heal. Now she worked for the insurance carrier for Tara's college so she investigated Tara's accident to determine possible liability.
Dax Blackwell looked like a regular teenaged boy but looks can be very deceptive. Dax took the wheel of the family business when his uncle and father died and now he's a better killer-for-hire than either of them were, and that says a lot. He's bright, creative, ruthless, determined, and oddly enough, almost likeable.
Then there was Boone, who described herself as an agent from the Department of Energy but may not be exactly that. And there's the German. And Gerry. And a multitude of others., many with an interest in the missing phone.
Phone, phone. Who's got the scientist's phone, his real phone? Can the person who has the phone unlock it? And why does everybody want it anyway?
This is a fast-paced, exciting read. Highly recommended.
Tara was asked to be the student escort for a famous scientist who was visiting her campus. On the way from dinner to the lecture hall, the scientist began to behave oddly, looking out the back window of Tara's car as if checking for someone following them, asking Tara strange questions, and finally insisting she drop him off so he could walk to the lecture hall, despite her worries about him arriving late and getting her into trouble. When she parked to let him out, a vehicle suddenly slammed into them, killing the scientist and seriously injuring Tara.
Eventually doctors, and those hunting the scientist's mysterious cell phone, discover that Tara had locked-in syndrome. She was completely aware of everything going on around her; however, she was paralyzed and unable to let anyone know she was there inside her body. As Tara slowly relearned communication skills, the danger in which she was balanced continued to grow. Many people, for various reasons, wanted to know what Tara saw at the accident site and how much of it she remembered.
Abby Kaplan was a race car driver, turned stunt driver, turned insurance investigator. Still haunted by an accident when her boyfriend, an up and coming movie star, was killed while she was driving, she returned to Maine to heal. Now she worked for the insurance carrier for Tara's college so she investigated Tara's accident to determine possible liability.
Dax Blackwell looked like a regular teenaged boy but looks can be very deceptive. Dax took the wheel of the family business when his uncle and father died and now he's a better killer-for-hire than either of them were, and that says a lot. He's bright, creative, ruthless, determined, and oddly enough, almost likeable.
Then there was Boone, who described herself as an agent from the Department of Energy but may not be exactly that. And there's the German. And Gerry. And a multitude of others., many with an interest in the missing phone.
Phone, phone. Who's got the scientist's phone, his real phone? Can the person who has the phone unlock it? And why does everybody want it anyway?
This is a fast-paced, exciting read. Highly recommended.
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