Cindy Gerard Into the Dark

Into the Dark

Cindy Gerard

St. Martin's, Jun 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 031298118X

Terrorists kidnapped Amy Walker, but made no demands for her release. Instead they raped and tortured the American. Several E.D.E.N operatives including Dallas Garrett rescue Amy. Subsequently she vanished, but Dallas knows first hand that out of sight means inside his mind as he has not forgotten her (see INTO THE DARK).

Six months since the rescue and he still thinks of her; wishing they met under nicer circumstances. Amy has gone into hiding because she knows the abduction was personal; her grandfather, a former Nazi medical scientist who experimented on his offspring (Amy's locked away mother), arranged for her kidnapping and torture. She fears she will never be safe so she turns to her hero whom she was attracted to when he saved her as her own blood is coming to spill her blood.

Fans of the Bodyguard series have been waiting since Dec 2005 for the return of Amy and Dallas; the wait was worth it as Cindy Gerard provides a great romantic suspense thriller. The story line is non stop action (it is a Bodyguard tale), but insures that former teacher Amy and her hero seem real and their relationship genuine. In many ways her grandfather steals the show from mostly Amy's impressions as an evil genius who goes OVER THE LINE of morality without a second thought even sending family TO THE BRINK of insanity.

Harriet Klausner