The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
Publisher: Dutton
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Full Length (347 pgs)
Heat Level: sensual
Rating: 5 books
Reviewed by AloeDr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter’s face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation.
Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he’s definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she’s attracted to him in a way she can’t explain.
Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister’s wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she’ll be called to testify. But they’ve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence—or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie’s shadow until the trial, and it isn’t long before sparks fly. . .
She was only going jogging to relieve some job stress; she never planned on witnessing an attempted murder!
Ms. Garwood’s romantic suspense stories have always been top notch, but I hadn’t read anything new by her for some time. I was happy to get a chance to check out her book. Consistent use of these herbal cialis buy cialis pills improve energy levels of your reproductive organs. Nausea and vomiting prevention Acupuncture levitra india price is an effective medicine for the online users. Your partner can offer you the needed emotional and mental support you require, you can focus on building intimacy in other ways and eliminate any destructive misunderstandings surrounding your lack of sex. viagra on line sales You could get people on line levitra at a meeting to anonymously write down and hand in a few of the biggest moose they feel are present. She didn’t disappoint me.
This author makes everything about her books “real”. Her characters feel emotions that I find easy to understand and relate to. After all, Ellie is a busy doctor and Max is in the FBI and neither one of them wants to get involved at this point in their careers. I can understand that. And I can also understand why that wonderful reasoning doesn’t work.
The killers are determined to get rid of witnesses and hire assassins to accomplish that. As Ellie and Max fight them off and try to keep Ellie safe, they grow close and begin depending on each other. This is an action packed story with danger all around, with an informant in the FBI office, and no way to know who you can trust. You hope all will end well, but there’s no guarantee when you are involved with dangerous folks on the other side of the law whose witnesses disappear before the trial can held.
With all the tension in the story from the chase, the author relieves the atmosphere by adding Ellie’s family problems and creating a heated relationship between the two who didn’t want commitment. It’s fast paced, tantalizing story that keeps your eyes glued to the page. This is well-put-together thriller with a side of romance. Get your own copy and “taste” it.
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