Publishers Weekly
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At the start of this solid novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Brown (Deadline), heiress Emory Charbonneau, a successful Atlanta-based pediatrician, disappears while training for a marathon; the police, along with her colleagues and husband, are soon engaged in efforts to locate her. Awakening after a painful collapse, Charbonneau finds herself in the remote cabin of a handsome, nameless man. While he doesn't restrain her, he does refuse to drive her to her car, citing inclement weather. She's distrustful of the claim that he has no phone and begins to question his motives. A parallel plotline involving FBI agent Jack Connell's search for a man involved with a deadly incident intersects with Charbonneau's predicament, casting further suspicions on her captor. Florid prose and problematic power dynamics render sex scenes more troubling than titillating, but Brown ends her gone-girl narrative with a surprising denouement that hits the reader like a well-aimed blow to the back of the head. Agent: Maria Carvainis, Maria Carvainis Agency. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal
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Preeminent Atlanta pediatrician and philanthropist Emory Charbonneau leaves her home and begins what should have been an ordinary marathon training run. It is anything but when she wakes up concussed and confused in a remote cabin in the North Carolina mountains in the care of a nameless secretive, seductive man who is obviously in hiding. Little does she realize the irrevocable changes that are put in motion, the viper's nest of deceit her ordeal is uncovering, and the extreme danger in which she'll find herself. Verdict Fans of the best-selling Brown (Deadline; Low Pressure) will be thrilled with her latest spine-tingling page-turner. A mix of chilling suspense, dark humor, and romance, it stars a mysterious hero/villain and a respectable heroine who might be suffering a touch of Stockholm syndrome. The no-nonsense dialog and intense, twisty narrative will keep romantic suspense fans on edge until the final page. [See Prepub Alert, 3/10/14.]-Debbie Haupt, St. Charles City-Cty. Lib. Dist., St Peters, MO (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus
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The perennially best-selling Brown checks in with another woman-in-perilhunky-guy-to-the-rescue romantic thriller.Emory, a wealthy Atlanta-based pediatrician who runs marathons, is training for an upcoming race in a remote mountainous region of North Carolina. She's left behind her self-centered husband, Jeff, with whom shes had one of their frequent arguments; thats fine with Jeff, who plans to spend Emorys absence with his mistress. But then Emorys plans go very wrong. She wakes up injured and disoriented in a strange cabin with a tall, gorgeous man who refuses to divulge his identity. The mystery man tells her she had an accident on the trail and he brought her back there to recover. Emory suffered a head wound and is both woozy and mistrustful of the stranger, but after a day or so, when she feels well enough to leave, she discovers the mountain road is covered with ice, socked in with a pea-soup fog and not at all navigable, so she heads back to the cabin without even trying to get home. As Emory falls in love with the tall stranger, her petulant husband comes under scrutiny by two small-town police detectives who believe he might not be telling them everything about his missing wife. Brown throws in some steamy sex, a mysterious mistress and an FBI agent who's searching for the mystery man. Brown knows how to pace her stories so fans will keep turning the pages, but while her prose is clean and efficient, readers searching for characters who rise above the stereotypical will be sorely disappointed in this plot-driven entry.Browns novels share several qualities: Theyre entertaining, competently written, full of twists and turns, but ultimately forgettable. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.