KILLER AMNESIA by Sherri Shackelford is the wonderfully crafted suspense filled story of investigative journalist Emma Lyons and Deputy Liam McCourt.
Deputy Liam McCallister, while working with the Dallas Police Gang Unit, is shot and presumed dead by the Serpent Brotherhood’s leader who they are after in order to prosecute for multiple crimes. To keep the fact that he’s alive, they put Liam in the protection program changing his name to Deputy Liam McCourt and having him working a small berg of a town called Redbird, Texas until the case can be prosecuted and he can return as a witness.
On a rainy night Liam gets a radio call asking for assistance on a one car accident with a person injury. Upon arrival, he’s told it’s not an injury, but rather a fatality. Liam kicks into high gear once he finds the woman in the car is very much alive. The woman immediately has trust in the man that found her not only to get her out of her car which is rapidly filling with water, but that he would keep her safe. The problems only begin with getting her out of the car and up the cliff. Emma Lyons has no idea who she is, where she’s from and only vaguely that a white truck ran her off the road. Later while in the hospital, she is sure that it was a deliberate action and that someone meant her harm. But why?
From that first meeting at the wreck site, there seems to be an attraction of some sort between Liam and Emma. Liam, having had a rough childhood tossed from foster home to foster home always feeling undeserving of a “normal” life and then having to lie about who he is and why he’s there, tries to keep thing professional and keep his distance knowing there can be no future between them. Emma feels peace and protected from day one when Liam is around. She can see in his eyes that something is troubling him and he’s been forthright with her from the beginning, but she can’t help but be drawn to him. When more threats and harm comes to Emma under his watch, Liam is determined to not only solve who is doing this and why, but to keep her safe from all harm regardless to the danger to himself. Once they know who Emma is and her profession, will it give them clues to find the answers? When a man that Emma had recently talked to while researching a book she’s writing turns up dead in Emma’s house, they know she had to have stepped on some serious toes. Is Emma’s investigation for the books connected to the murder and the attacks on her? Can an old cold case be getting too hot for the person that committed the crimes? Will the trail of clues lead them back closer than they thought possible? Is a bad cop always a bad cop or can a bad cop be a good cop? Can Liam find the person trying to harm Emma and not lose his heart in the process? Is there a future for Liam and Emma?
KILLER AMNESIA is a wonderful example of a love inspired suspense story that has you turning pages and hoping for a happily ever after ending. I thoroughly loved this story with the amnesia angle and Emma fighting to remember who she was right alongside the suspense of finding out whodunit and why mixed with just the right amount of romance. The author does a wonderful balancing act to mix just the right amount of each to come out with a fabulous story. I would definitely recommend this book – which I already have to family and friends. I will for sure be checking out more books from this author.
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