Passion's verdict
"When a cop escorted a handcuffed prisoner into the roadside diner, reporter Kelsey Merrill was intrigued. And when she discovered that the convict being transferred to the state penitentiary was none other than the notorious Benton Carlyle, she knew she had a chance to get the hottest scoop of her career. One moment Ben was fending off a nosy female journalist. The next a tornado ripped into the diner, bringing chaos, destruction--and a chance for escape. With Kelsey as his hostage, he fled into the mountains, free at last. Ben swore he wouldn't hurt her, and he swore that he was innocent. Kelsey knew better than to believe a murderer, but something in Ben's eyes made her want to help him--before it was too late"--Cover verso.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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What the reading experience may hold
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Fiction
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Balanced tone · Steady pace
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
A good fit if…
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This book's DNA
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A quick reading snapshot
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3733-6203-5
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL24941595M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.
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