Dark harbor
Someone wants reporter Madelyn Sawyer to leave the small costal town she has just arrived in--even if it takes hurting her. But she won't give up her goal of investigating Waterman's Beach's new police chief that easily. Madelyn assumes that former big-city detective Zach Davis--who some believe is a murderer involved in a drug-trafficking ring--is behind the threat. Who else would have a motive? But as bullets fly Madelyn's way, it is Zach who keeps saving her life. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she wants to tell the handsome lawman why she is relly in town. But if she does, will she lose his trust and any hope of surviving long enough to bring the real killer to light?
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. 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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Fiction · Romance
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Dark tone · Steady pace
Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3734-4749-7
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL26483026M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.
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?
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