Tiel McCoy is a hardworking Journalist, who will do anything to get a news worth all the TRPs and get them rolling. She finally[ after great pushing from her boss] decides to go on a vacation to New Mexico. On the way she hears a news-bulletin about the kidnapping of Sabra, the daughter of a Fort Worth's richest power-players Dendy. She immediately calls up her boss, who hints that the girl has runaway with her boyfriend rather than been kidnapped. Her boss, Gully also tells her that the boyfriend [Ronnie's ] father lives nearby to where she is now.
Tiel McCoy immediately decides to interview the father, but on route she loses her way at Rojo Flats. She enters a store to call Gully up and to refresh when a young boy and his pregnant girlfriend barge in to demand money and gasoline. What happens later, is for you to read an find out!

This is the basic plot. Well, it is an OK romantic suspense thriller [ if I am right about the sub-genre]. I got this book from one of my friends, she didn't recommend it of course but I picked it up for my suspense-thriller challenge[ and it was free to take-away :)].
Well first things first, I hate journos like Tiel. I hate journos who are not sensitive to people in trauma and go on asking stupid questions and going on showing hateful scenes of a mom grieving her son's death. I always thought, there should always be a limit to such things. So Tiel McCoy was obviously not my fav character. This book is a bit boring of course and sometimes tiring too. It is just 200 odd pages, that's an advantage.
Maybe I read "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo" just a while back is the reason why I thought it lacked the "page-turner" thingy that these kind of novels have!
If you have not read this author before, I suggest not to read this one first. But I would definitely give another book a try.
2 on 5 is my rating! ( )

Tiel McCoy is a work-aholic, a hard-working, go-get-em broadcast journalist for a Dallas TV station, who is long overdue for a vacation. After having her producer almost force her to use up some of her vacation days, she decides to spend a week in a rented condo in the mountains of Angel Fire, New Mexico. But, on the drive there, she hears a news bulletin on the car radio that puts her plans on hold. The teenaged daughter of one of Fort Worth's richest power-players has been kidnapped. A quick call to her boss nets her some inside information that the girl might not have been kidnapped at all, but instead has likely run away with her boyfriend, a boyfriend who's father just happens to live near where she happens to be. A quick pit stop at a convenience store for a potty break and caffeine turns into a life-threatening drama when a young man with a pistol and a pregnant young lady come in to demand cash and gasoline. The resulting standoff will test Tiel's endurance, her preconceived notions and her journalistic objectivity.

Okay, that's the basic plot, and in and of itself made for a fairly good story. Not the "gripping page turner" the cover blurb promised, but still entertaining enough. No real surprises here, though, and the obligatory "torrid love story" stuck in at the end felt awkward, out of character for the two involved, and totally unnecessary. Sandra Brown can write a good book. I know she can because I've read a couple of them. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them. ( )

Sort of disappointing. Boring standoff, til ending when there was sex involved. Predictable ending. Was written in REAltime supposedly, but didnt feel like it at all.
4/17/00 ( )

Short book, average mystery ( )