Fatal Exchange Will Steal Your Breath!

Fatal Exchange
(Southern Crimes)
Lisa Harris
ISBN: 978-0800721916
April 2014/320 pages/$14.99
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Desperate times create desperate people. And desperate people are dangerous . . .

Though Emily Hunt comes from a family of cops, the relatively quiet life of a high school teacher suits her just fine. She's saving up to buy a house, slowly moving forward after her brother's death, and settling into a life she loves. So the last person she wants to spend time with is Mason Taylor.

An undercover cop, Mason is enemy number one as far as her family is concerned. His involvement in the death of Emily's brother is still up in the air, and now he expects her to help him with a case. Mason has been working with one of her students, Rafael Cerda, whose brother has been kidnapped by a drug cartel. And with time running out to meet their demands, Rafael is getting desperate.

Emily will have to draw on all of her strength to handle what happens next . . .

Fatal Exchange will draw you into a complex matrix of intertwining lives, unraveling secrets, and unexpected love.

Read an excerpt.

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© Mariah Harris

Lisa Harris is a bestselling author, a Christy Award finalist, and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 from Romantic Times. She has sold over thirty novels and novella collections. Along with her husband, she and her three children have spent over ten years living as missionaries in Africa where she homeschools, leads a women's group, and runs a nonprofit organization that works alongside their church-planting ministry. The ECHO Project works in southern Africa promoting Education, Compassion, Health, and Opportunity and is a way for her to "speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves . . . the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice" (Proverbs 31:8).

When she's not working, she loves hanging out with her family, cooking different ethnic dishes, photography, and heading into the African bush on safari. For more information about her books and life in Africa, visit her website or her blog. For more information about The ECHO Project, please visit www.theECHOproject.org.


MY THOUGHTS

I am so glad I discovered Lisa Harris's books last year and added her to my list of must-read suspense authors! I was captivated last fall by the first book in this series, Dangerous Passage (reviewed here), and this novel even exceeded that one. Harris wastes no time with superfluous or immaterial scenes before plunging the reader into the emotion and tension of this heart-pounding tale--which could have been ripped from the headlines and is far too authentic to dismiss as implausible fiction. Emily elicits admiration and respect from the opening pages, and that only grows as the scenes unfold and the stakes increase. Mason impresses as well, and one can only hope to have someone like him around in such a situation. Escalating suspense and unforeseen developments make "just one more chapter" a futile objective; be prepared to stay up late with this one! Trading sleep for reading is definitely worth this Fatal Exchange!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a copy of this book from Revell Publishing as part of a blog tour. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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