Alone in the Dark (Cavanaugh Justice) [Mass Market Paperback]

Marie Ferrarella (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004

Heck, the reclusive officer hardly spoke to anyone other than his faithful K-9 companion. So what harm could come from Patience Cavanaugh letting the haunted rebel protect her from a dangerous stalker? She might be a veterinarian, but Patience had enough cop sense from the rest of her family to know that her life was on the line and Brady Coltrane just might be the one to save it. So despite the fact that one look at her brooding bodyguard in blue made her heart trip, certainly she was safer in Brady's embrace than standing here all alone?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373273975
• ISBN-13: 978-0373273973
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #954,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars She didn't want to get involved with a cop, December 13, 2004

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Anza Carrillo "heavenlyanza" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alone in the Dark (Cavanaugh Justice) (Mass Market Paperback)

Pretty and outgoing veterinarian Patience Cavanaugh had rules that she lived by and refused to break. Rule #1 - don't get involved with a cop. Even though most of her extended family were police officers, Patience had grown up with an emotionally distant, sometimes abusive cop for a father, and she didn't want to live like her mom had. But when she confides in loner Brady Coltrane that she was being stalked, she found herself wanting to get to know the K-9 cop much better...

Brady Coltrane was a loner. He didn't get involved. The only living being he allowed himself to deeply care about was his partner, King, a German Shepherd. But when Patience tells him that she's being stalked, he agrees to help her so her family won't get involved with the mess. She thinks the stalker is harmless, but Brady knows better than that. He knows how violence can destroy lives. As Brady gets to know Patience a bit better, he feels the walls he constructed around his heart begin to crumble. He thinks the noble thing to do is to walk away from Patience, but how can he do that with her stalker on the loose?

This book really deserves 4.5 stars. It was shorter than it may first appear (the font was big and the lines were spaced wide), so it was a quick read. It kept my interest from the first page all the way to the last. Brady was a great hero, I just wish that his turmoil had been fully explored; instead, he appeared rather two-dimensional for part of the book because his emotions about what had happened in his past were never fully tapped. I liked Patience and could identify with her.

The book didn't get five stars for two main reasons. One, Brady's past wasn't treated with the depth I think it deserved. Two, I knew who the stalker was as soon as he was introduced in the book. So it was very frustrating to know who the stalker is, and yet the characters in the book had absolutely no idea who he was and were going down the wrong path for much of the story. I wondered why neither of them could think a little harder and get to who was really sending Patience the flowers and spying on her. Oh well. It was still a great book, one that I'll probably read again, and I'm definitely interested in reading Patience's brother's story ("Internal Affair," by the same author).