Stop Me (Last Stand, Book 2) [Mass Market Paperback]

Brenda Novak (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Mira (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778324605
• ISBN-13: 978-0778324607
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #694,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Brenda Novak Bio

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak's career as a bestselling author--she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home.

"When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book," Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times, USA Today and Borders/Waldenbooks bestseller lists and won many awards, including two Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best and the National Reader's Choice Award.

Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children--three girls and two boys. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research--an online auction held on her Web site (www.brendanovak.com) every May. Brenda has raised over $1 million to date.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than Trust Me., July 2, 2008

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Janet (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Me (Last Stand, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

Brenda Novak just keeps getting better and better. I liked Trust Me, but I liked Stop Me even more. It's edgier, creepier, darker than Trust Me. I could not put the book down. It was suspenseful and kept me guessing till the end, and the romance was touching. Jasmine and Romain are haunted, hurt characters who try not to care for each other, but together they find healing and love. The conclusion was heart-wrenching.

As with Trust Me, I would have liked a more romantic conclusion, but that didn't take away from the book.

Don't miss this series.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romantic Suspense doesn't get much better!, August 16, 2008

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S. Barrett (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Me (Last Stand, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

Stop Me (Last Stand, Book 2)

Romain Fournier wants nothing to do with people. Four years earlier his young daughter Adele was brutally murdered, and he served two years for the shooting of the man responsible. Now he's out, living a lonely life on the Louisiana bayou...until Jasmine Stratford finds him.

Jasmine is still searching for the man who abducted her younger sister Kimberly sixteen years ago. When her sister's bracelet is mailed to her in a package bearing a New Orleans stamp, she leaves Sacramento and the Last Stand office to do her own sleuthing. A similarity in the Fournier case and her sister's abduction sends her on the trail to Romain, but he chooses to keep the past in the past.

Each carries a boatload of baggage, however, an undeniable sexual attraction overwhelms both of these well-drawn and intriguing characters. As clues begin to appear and events to unfold, Jasmine and Romain are caught up in a chilling and sometimes gruesome hunt for the truth.

The sex sizzles, the suspense dominates and Ms. Novak superbly manages to captivate the reader as she delves into the criminal mind. This is a complex story that will keep you guessing right up to the final pages.

I'm a Brenda Novak fan, so I expect her books to be good. Stop Me, the sequel to Trust Me in The Last Stand trilogy surpassed my expectations and then some.

Highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They keep getting better!, July 5, 2008

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L. Gondelman "Lori's Reading Corner" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Me (Last Stand, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

Book two in the last stand trilogy focuses on Jasmine, a woman who is determined to find the sister that was kidnapped 16 years earlier. After receiving the bracelet her sister was wearing when she disappeared in the mail, Jaz heads to New Orleans, where the package was post marked from. She finds similar traits in the kidnapping and murder of Romains daughter Adele. After her murderer is let go, Romain takes matters into his own hands and kills the guy on the courthouse steps - or does he? Jaz and Romain team up to figure out what happened to the ones the loved. They find themselves in the middle of something bigger than either of them could have imagined. Did the wrong man die for Adele's murder? Is Jaz's sister Kimberly dead or alive? Did Romain kill an innocent man? While Jaz and Romain work together to solve these mysteries - if they should happen to fall in love along the way - well, that's not so bad is it?