Will he choose the Mission or the Girl?Counter-terrorist Agent, Johnny Garino is hot on the trail of a deadly terrorist, until he gets a call. The body of his high-school sweetheart has been found in a mine on his family ranch. He has to come home. Slam dunk, he thinks, until he discovers the investigating cop is the girl who stole his heart and never gave it back. Small town cop, Gemma Connors … Gemma Connors doesn’t believe Johnny had anything to do with the death of their old friend, but after another body is found, and an attempt made on Gemma’s life, it’s clear they have a killer living among them. And he’s not done.
All Johnny knows is he can’t let anything happen to Gemma. But straddling two worlds is proving more difficult than he thought. This killer must be stopped, and fast because there’s a terrorist on the loose. Torn between his career and the woman he never stopped loving, Johnny Garino has a choice to make. And lives to save, including Gemma’s.
Johnny’s Girl is the Second Book in the Deadly Secrets series.
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A storm is unleashed over Johnny’s home town exposing skeletons, both literal and figurative. When he becomes the main suspect in a murder, Johnny has no choice but to return home and come face to face with Gemma, the one girl he could never forget. The only problem is that she is a cop on the murder case and she’s hiding her own secrets. This suspenseful romance is a page-turner and kept me in suspense throughout. As more secrets are exposed, lives are put in danger. Johnny is torn between protecting the woman he loves and completing his mission, which has serious national consequences. Generally well written and romantic, I did enjoy this book and look forward to reading more by this writer. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.
Nine years after high school graduation, Gemma and Johnny meet up again over a cold case. Johnny’s former girlfriend and Gemma’s friends body is found. Johnny is a suspect and Gemma is one of the investigating cops. Johnny has secrets (where he’s been and what he does for a living); Gemma has secrets, too (and it derailed her life after graduation). Interesting story! I received this book from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.
Will they get a second chance at love?
When Johnny Garino left his hometown 10 years ago, he took his broken heart with him and left Gemma Connors behind with her own broken heart. The question is, who murdered Kimmie 10 years ago?
In addition to a great cover, this suspenseful romance is a well written second chance love story. Gemma and Johnny are both sympathetic characters who both have suffered from a misunderstanding and lack of communication. Sadly, the first part of the book is filled with quite a bit of angst. However, when the action gets going the pace picks up and the plot kicks into high gear. Ultimately the mystery is solved and the star-crossed couple finally get their happy-ever-after.
Content alert: There is a small amount of swearing, some violence and a couple of descriptive sexually intimate scenes.
Disclosure: I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily review this book. This is my honest review.
This is a very quick read. I have not read the first book in the series and was hoping this one could be read as a stand alone. Unfortunately I felt like there were two distinctly different stories trying to be told and trying to keep Johnny’s work story straight was a bit much. Having not read the first book I was not invested enough to care about the details of his mission and wish the book would have focused more on the story line between him and Gemma and what was happening at home. I did enjoy that storyline but it was a little predictable. All in all a quick read that I will probably not do again. Perhaps if I had read the first I might have been sucked in to the story more. “I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily review this book. This is my honest review.”