"Close
Enemy" by Sandra Dailey
*Although I haven’t read the first book
in this series, “Common Enemy,” I didn’t need to. It’s a stand-alone novel, encompassing
enough backstory to explain the characters and their lives.
Caleb McCrae is an attorney
who receives a letter from Leah Fletcher, a prisoner, asking him to come see
her, indicating a life is dependent upon him. He’s intrigued and decides to go.
He doesn’t realize when he enters the prison that this visit will turn his life
upside down.
Leah is pregnant and begs him
to protect her unborn child from her mother’s grasp. Caleb learns the story of
why Leah is in prison and why she needs to protect her child from her mother,
and agrees to help. What neither of them realizes is that Caleb will need to
protect Leah and child from more than an unfit mother trying to take Leah’s
baby. Murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping rival the tensions of regret,
renewal of hope, devotion, love and heartache in this novel.
Dailey relays a story that is
both touching and heartbreaking, one that can resound in a reader’s heart, long
after the final page. This book is well-written; the narrative itself telling a
story that dialogue doesn’t need to say.
If you like romantic and
dramatic stories, this one is for you. A definite 4 STAR book.
Reviewed
by Starr Gardinier, author of the Other
Side Series
* I received an arc of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
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