From number-one New York Times best-selling author Barbara Freethy comes the first book in a new romantic suspense trilogy: Lightning Strikes. In these connected novels, a lightning strike leads to love, danger, and the unraveling of a family mystery that’ll change the past and the future….
When her father’s plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of an electrical storm, Alicia Monroe became obsessed with lightning. Now a news photographer in Miami, Alicia covers local stories by day and chases storms at night. In a flash of lightning, she sees what appears to be a murder, but when she gets to the scene, there is no body – only a military tag belonging to Liliana Valdez, a woman who has been missing for over a year.
While the police use the tag to jump-start their stalled investigation, Alicia sets off on her own to find the missing woman. Her search takes her into the heart of Miami’s Cuban American community where she meets the attractive but brooding Michael Cordero, who has his own demons to vanquish.
Soon Alicia and Michael are trying to save Liliana’s life as well as their own, as someone will do anything to protect a dark secret….
Yawn. Page after page of monotonous dialog that brought the plot to a screeching halt. Sex scenes were meh. I expected a lot more from this writer. I couldn’t finish this book and I almost always finish what I start.
good mystery and sweet romance… This story is a mystery with a bit of romance. It is very intriguing and holds your attention. I read some of the 1 star reviews and for the life of me I can’t figure out what they are talking about. The story is about a young woman being kidnapped and disappears. Her case goes cold after 2 months until a young woman finds her military dog tags in a park. The story takes place in southern Miami and the tags were found in a park on the way to Key West. The search for her never took place in…
I normally like Barbara Freethy’s writing style I normally like Barbara Freethy’s writing style. I don’t know what she was thinking with this book. I felt absolutely disgusted by the lack of storyline and the enormous amount of gratuitous sex scenes It wasn’t even good sex…it was more about how much the man couldn’t control himself and the woman just instead of saying no seemed to regret things later. Hated it!