When a costly mistake ends Malorie Montgomery’s career, she returns to Cape Cod in search of a fresh start. But her plans for a new—and quiet—life are quickly derailed when she makes a grisly discovery in the woods, and her screams bring the one person from her past she’d hoped to avoid. Dean Slater, the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart in high school, now lives in the beachfront community that … that was supposed to be her haven…and he’s just as hot as he was six years ago.
With his rough background, Dean always knew he wasn’t good enough for the kind, intelligent beauty who claimed his heart, but somehow he’d believed their love was strong enough to survive anything—until the tragic night she turned her back on him when he needed her trust the most. Despite their painful history, Dean can’t resist the instinct to protect her, especially when it becomes apparent there’s a killer in their town.
Their former chemistry soon reignites, but Malorie has long accepted that her dark family secret has destined her to a life alone. And when she uncovers evidence that makes her the killer’s target, a deadly confrontation threatens to destroy any possibility of a second chance.
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Dangerous Currents by Kathryn Knight is an emotional, poignant second chance romance as well as a darky intense tale of murder.
Youthful insecurities and a series of misunderstandings six years earlier had split them apart during high school, but Malorie Montgomery and Dean Slater are reunited at the scene of a gruesome murder in the woods while Malorie’s walking her dog Brady.
Malorie has returned to the small Cape Cod town where she spent her summers after leaving her job in the UK for mysterious reasons. She worked with her father in the family business, and moving forward, it’s easy to guess that Malorie and her father had some kind of falling out.
Now, she’ll be teaching some classes at the local community college while working with her best friend Julia to create a riding retreat for kids with disabilities (which by the way, is a very worthwhile cause. While my autistic son was growing up, he looked forward, more than anything in the world, to the few times a year where he got to spend time riding horses with specialized safety equipment.)
Dean is working as a landscaper, hoping to buy the business from the owner when he retires.
The attraction between Malorie and Dean seems stronger than ever and before long they begin to rethink the past and decide to talk.
Will Dean finally tell Malorie the truth about why he stood her up all those years ago, and will Malorie reveal the dark secret which has her convinced that she can’t have a relationship with anyone?
Who could the murderer be? As old friends and enemies are introduced in the story, the author skillfully leaves the reader second-guessing the dark side of everyone in the small Cape Cod town. There are twists and turns up until the very end of the story.
Excellent Romantic Suspense!! I give it five stars!!
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Wow I’m glad I read this story because I loved it!
It’s a second chance romance story with suspense.
Everything in this story is well written. The location is described really well and felt like it transported me to Cape Cod.
The characters are well liked. The romance between the two is steamy.
The suspense is written just as it should be with tension that grips you to the seat.
I highly recommend this story
Coming home after 7 years, Malorie Montgomery returns home to Cape Cod. While out on a run with her dog, they stumble across a dead body. When she screams out, never in her wildest dreams did she imagine the person who would come to her rescue would be her high school sweetheart… who broke her heart. Dean Slater never imagined he would see Malorie again… and definitely not under these circumstances. As Malorie and Dean grow close again, can the two of them solve this mystery before Malorie is next?
This was a very emotional second chance romance. Watching Malorie’s and Dean’s relationship blossom was something to see. Both characters have secrets from their past, which lead to misunderstandings and unnecessary heartache. The development of their relationship was perfect… and so were the love scenes. Second chance romance typically isn’t my thing, but I might have to change my stance that after reading Dangerous Currents.
What a fantastic story from Kathryn Knight ! I highly recommend this and other reads from her, she is a talented author.
DANGEROUS CURRENTS by Katheryn Knight is a contemporary second chance romance with a suspense sub-plot. This book focuses more on the romance, past and present and the difficulties facing the H/h to get to their HEA than the suspense occurring in the background during the same time period. It is a well written, emotionally charged romance due to long held secrets and misunderstandings more than a romantic suspense as the summary leads you to believe.
Malorie Montgomery has returned to Cape Cod for a fresh start. She plans on helping her best friend set up her non-profit and teach business courses at the local community college. While taking her dog for a walk, she stumbles on a partially buried body. When she screams for help the boy, now man, who broke her heart in high school and never left her thoughts, shows up to help.
Dean Slater is surprised when he sees who called out for help while he is out on his run. She is back after seven years. Dean cannot believe the attraction is still as strong as it was their senior year of high school. He was the poor boy who had nothing to offer this rich girl, and yet she chose him. Now, Dean and his brother inherited the house just down the street from Malorie’s and there is no way they will not run into each other around the Cape.
Malorie has a family secret that keeps her from a permanent relationship and Dean still feels inferior and undeserving of Malorie, but the heat and attraction is still there on both their parts. Misunderstandings and misconceptions need to be cleared up, secrets need exposed and danger is lurking in the background.
This is a romance that has so many layers. There is the poor boy and the rich girl high school first loves, Malorie’s secret that Dean never knew about, Dean’s shame of his step-father going to prison and his brother not stepping up as a responsible father-to-be. Dean is always the responsible one and the protector. Malorie and Dean’s relationship progresses in a realistic way and the sex scenes are hot. The suspense sub-plot of the murdered girl Malorie and Dean find adds some tension and intrigue to the story with a surprise who-done-it, but the romance could really stand on its own without it. This is a second chance romance worth reading.
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Malorie Montgomery had a life and career working for her father in London, England but when she makes a crucial mistake both are derailed and she returns home to Cape Cod. She decides to help her best friend Julia setting up the Friendship Farm focusing on doing something that helps children with disabilities. She happens to be out walking her dog, Brady, the day after she gets back and ends up finding a dead woman’s body in the woods. While screaming after finding the body she hears her ex-boyfriend’s voice and thinks that it’s her imagination. Now forced to not only face the man who broke her heart six years ago but also try to find a way to get along with him since he lives five houses down from her now. Despite the hurt feelings there is still chemistry between them but Malorie has a dark family secret that causes her to believe that she must live her life alone. Will she be able to let go of the past and find a second chance with Dean?
I was able to read this book thanks to the Winter Games Readers Challenge on Facebook. This story is very well written and progresses, slow and steadily, into a pretty great climax of events. I was worried about the slowness of the story because, of course, if something moves slowly and doesn’t feel like it has progressed and you end up with an anticlimactic ending. But this story is NOT that. One of my favorite things about this book is that it was a complete start to finish. I didn’t have to wonder about the what ifs involving the ending or characters. It was an all encompassing storyline that I really loved reading. I actually wouldn’t mind reading more about them in later books.
I became invested in the relationship between Malorie and Dean and the secrets that they both seemed to hold on to which is why the story seemed liked it was progressing slowly but in reality I had read 100 pages without even realizing it. There were times where I wanted to scream and shout at both of these characters to just talk to each other. Other times I really just wanted to know about what happened in Malorie’s past that made her think the way she was thinking. I did, however, appreciate the fact that everything didn’t happen within the first few days and it did took weeks of them going back and forth with each other before really talking about things and really (finally) putting it all on the table.
I thought that the characters were super well rounded, they had a past, present, and hopefully future with or without each other (you’d have to read the book). I just really enjoyed the relationship that was forming with all of the characters, main and supporting, and learning about how they came to be together in first place. It helped the feel of chemistry between them when Dean showed a protectiveness of Malorie even after feeling the hurt and anger towards her for so long.
The story grabs you from the beginning with the introduction of Malorie. A young woman who has returned to her family’s beach house in Cape Cod with a chance to help her friend Julia start a new project. While walking her dog Brady, she stumbles upon a dead woman and her screams grab the attention of her past flame, Dean. What ensues is a second chance romance. Both Malorie and Dean have secrets that are slowly revealed, but will they be able to overcome their past and fall in love again. Ms. Knight excelled at this portion of the story and dealt with the “disease” state that was holding Malorie back from loving brilliantly. I would have liked a bit more of the mystery component of the story. There was one chapter about the killer/rapist’s thoughts and some mentions of the incidents. A little more emphasis on the suspense would have improved the book tremendously. However it is a wonderful read for lovers of second chance romances.
This was a good intense murder/second chance book. There are a lot of really good suspects and you they keep you guessing. You have a woman returning to her home after 6 years and she has a deep dark secret, a man who loved her and tries to understand her, a great bff, a lousy half brother, a sleazy ex boyfriend, raped and murdered women, the perpetrator running loose, a really cute and loyal dog.
My first book by Kathryn Knight and I’ve already picked which one I will read next!
Malorie and Dean were meant to be together but life won’t give them a break. Their sweet high school romance is torn apart in just one night of misconceptions. Seven years later, they find themselves face to face again over the dead body of a young woman. You will be holding your breath waiting to see if serious life obstacles or a serial killer tear them apart again.
Dangerous Currents
by Kathryn Knight
Dangerous Currents is set in a small town on Cape Cod, and is a good second chance romance, filled with resentment, insecurities, secrets, danger and mystery; a perfect for a cold, winter night. Attracting the read from the first chapter, with a story line that is quite unique and characters that are kindly damaged and well developed and the chemistry between her characters; the reader can connect to the character’s internal mayhem, as if they were real people.
Author Kathryn Knight writes romantic suspense stories with dark twisty plots, fascinating the readers and keeping the readers turning the pages, until they have finished the whole book. Ms. Kathryn Knight has a wonderful writing talent; she writes the setting of the stories where it virtually becomes like another character. The reader feels as though they are there with the characters; walking along the sandy beach or the forest along the shoreline. And bringing in the danger in an imaginative way; so, the readers will not forget it is still a part of the storyline. Readers both exciting and satisfied; while on the edge of their seat all at the same time.
I recommend Dangerous Currents, a summertime beach read, to any reader looking for a suspenseful read. Also, the reader should read some of Ms. Kathryn Knight’s other books with titles like: Haunted Souls, Gull Harbor, Silver Lake and Divine Fall; the reader will not be disappointed with any of Ms. Kathryn Knight’s stories. Both books I have read (Divine Fall and Dangerous Currents) are 5-star reads! Thank you, Ms. Kathryn, for sharing your stories and your writing talents, I feel in love with the characters and the storyline; definitely a book to re-read.
I just skipped over the steamy parts.
Malorie’s and Dean’s story is a definite page turner and hard to put down till you finish type of book. Complicated and misinterpreted events in the past, insecure and hurt feelings, jealousy, secrets, and an illness that might/might not come be certainly takes them on a roller coaster ride. Add in a rapist/murderer among their midst and you will find that this story certainly will have you on the edge of your seat at times and totally immersed . I loved Brady and feel everyone should have a Brady in their lives and was so happy at the end that they got him a buddy to hang out with. Highly recommend this one.
I love a good second chance romance and this did not disappoint.
wow another amazing book you wrote! she wanted to start over after losing her job. only she meets her after seeing something bad. he still wants but she wants to keep him away. secrets will be told that could destroy them both!
This is my first time reading a book by this author and I enjoyed her book. She has a great plot and held my attention as she led me through this story of second chances and murder mystery. The characters have great chemistry even though they have baggage from their history together. The story and characters jumped off the page as I found myself absorbed in the story. This is an author I look forward to reading more from, I enjoyed her writing style and she wrote an exciting book.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Dangerous Currents is romantic suspense with emphasis on the romance. The second chance for Malorie and Dean is good if a little drawn out, but it overshadows the suspense. The body is found early in the story, and we even get a couple of chapters from the viewpoint of the killer, but after that, it becomes secondary to the romance until almost the end of the book. At that point, it’s time for the big reveal and an edge of the seat bit of action. I did guess the identity of the killer before the reveal, but it still adds a good twist to the story. The author is clearly talented, and I liked the characters. I would’ve preferred a better balance between the romance and the suspense, but the story did hold my interest and I’ll be interested to see what this author does next.
DANGEROUS CURRENTS is a stand-alone, second-chances, suspense romance.
I loved the intense emotion that filled every page of this wonderful story.
Dean and Malorie are high school sweethearts reunited under grisly circumstances and fighting to develop a relationship despite past misunderstandings, assumptions, and secrets. Their attraction is palpable, though Malorie fights it every step of the way. Family secrets block their path to happily ever after.
I loved that Dean and Malorie talk to each other as adults should. They are no longer the teenagers they were when they met.
Once they drop their walls and lean on one another they are both stronger. Isn’t that the way of life. That’s what I love about Kathryn Knight’s writing. She creates characters that I love and can believe in being real.
The suspense plot was well thought out and hints were dropped in small bits along the way. The build up was perfectly timed and the reveal was a beautifully orchestrated piece of heart stopping action – just the way I like it.
This is the third book I have read from this author and I couldn’t be happier to say that I have been invited to read her newest release, THE HAUNTING OF HILLWOOD FARM. You now have that review to be watching for in the near future.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC via BookSprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Title: DANGEROUS CURRENTS
Series: N/A
Category /Genre: Romantic Suspense
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing: book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Kathryn Knight (as an ARC gifted copy)
Kathryn Knight is a wonderful author. Another great book from her!
I love a good second chance romance, and this is a great one! The suspense is enticing in the first chapter, becoming a little more subtle in the middle, but the author always brings us back to the danger in creative ways so we don’t forget it’s still hanging over their heads. The wrap-up is both exciting and satisfying. The characters are nicely flawed, the story line is really quite unique and, even though a happy ending is expected in the romance genre, there were a few moments at the end that had me wondering! I definitely recommend this one as a summertime beach read — but don’t go walking too far into the woods by yourself after starting it!
Kathryn Knight writes books that are full of suspense, mystery, and drama. Dangerous Currents is a dramatic romance with characters that are relatable with real emotions and real feelings. I found myself being pulled into the story at the beginning and never coming up for air until I finished the entire book.
Dangerous Currents starts with Malorie returning home to Cape Cod after being gone for 6 years. While hiking with her dog she comes across a body. Who hears her screams for help? Her high school boyfriend Dean, who broke her heart many years ago. I could feel the sparks and see the attraction from their first meeting. I enjoyed that they didn’t just fall back together. They both had misconceptions of what happen the night of their senior prom and they had to work together to move past those feelings.
My only wish is that while Kathryn Knight explores the feelings between Malorie and Dean that the murder wasn’t pushed to the side. I felt like the there should have been police work going on or other mentions of what was happening after the body was found. The murder was lost in the beginning of the story when it was brought back up later in the story.
I never saw the end coming, I knew it had to end and that secrets would need to be revealed but I was entirely shocked at how the story came together. As I read the last words I knew it was the perfect way to end a wonderful story.