Jonathan Davis is a narrator I’d never listened to before. Brown was quite intent on keeping her readers in the dark, and who am I to spoil an author’s fun? Of course, he learns that Emory is indeed missing and becomes the prime suspect.Īre you wondering why I haven’t mentioned the name of Emory’s mystery man? I didn’t know it until the book was more than halfway over. She’s just angry, playing the injured wife, waiting for him to coax her back home. After all, nothing truly awful could have happened to someone like Emory. He packs a bag and heads to North Carolina, determined to make up with her. This man, once her captor, is now starting to feel like a partner of some kind.īack in Atlanta, Emory’s husband grows alarmed by his wife’s failure to get in touch. Suddenly, the lines between right and wrong are blurred. When trouble comes calling in the form of a family filled with mostly unsavory people, Emory teams up with the mystery man in order to stand up for what she believes in. He stubbornly refuses to give her any information. Who is this man, and what is he hiding? He won’t tell her his name, or much about his life. Slowly, Emory’s fear lessens, but not so her curiosity. Since the trail is so remote, and the weather is turning bad, he is taking care of her in his cabin rather than driving her to the nearest emergency room. He tells her she was lying unconscious on the trail, bleeding from a head wound. Unsurprisingly, Emory is frightened, and isn’t sure she can believe her rescuer means her no harm. The next thing Emory knows, she’s waking up in an unknown place with a strange man standing over her. She figures it’s just what she needs to get her ready for her next marathon, something she’s been working toward for quite some time. She and her husband had argued about this run the night before, but Emory is determined to do it. Basically, she leads a charmed life.Įarly one Saturday morning, Emory sets out in the winter weather for a twenty mile run in North Carolina. She’s happy, goal-oriented, and married to a man she thinks is perfect for her. It definitely kept me from thinking about how bad I was feeling.Įmory Charbonneau is a pediatrician and marathon runner. A recent sinus infection had me in need of something fast-paced and thrilling, and Mean Streak, her latest romantic suspense novel, seemed like just the thing to listen to. It’s been a few years since I’ve curled up with a book by Sandra Brown.

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