When
brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a
19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she
scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was
even born.
Beautiful
and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to
professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her
team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely
wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to
assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing
from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that
promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place -
Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. Mistaken for a
lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly
adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more
importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a young girl is
found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's
some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century
tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.
My thoughts:
I’d like to
start off my mentioning the whole concept of time-travel story. Sometimes it
works in stories and sometimes it does not. In this story, it works and the
author gives such a brilliant and believable description of Kendra being pulled
through time. For me that was pretty intense. I could almost feel the physical
pain she was going through.
I really dig
the premise of an FBI Agent traveling through time and ending up working a case
of a 19th century murder that turns into much more. You also meet some other
great characters that race to help her solve the crimes. For starters, Rose,
Rebecca, Molly, Alec and Duke Aldridge are about the best written supporting
characters I have read in a good while. Most of all I was so fascinated with
Kendra’s process in trying to solve these murders and some of the other
characters thought process. I believe Kendra really brought that out in them
and she really got them to think outside their 19th century minds.
The killings
are graphic, there is profanity in this story. Quite a bit of it in the
beginning actually. I’m not one for profanity but I understand the scenario the
author was portraying. Intense situations cause people to react in all kinds of
ways. For many, profanity is one of them. Even though the killings are graphic,
this gives you a real sense of what the victims are going through, which makes
the story all the more intense. I think that was brilliantly done and gives you
a real understanding of that type of evil in the world.
I found this
story to be atmospheric, packed with lots of action, high-energy situations and
such intense and real emotions. I couldn’t put it down. I loved it and I hope
there will be a sequel! I’ve rated this
book four and a half stars.
I received a
copy from NetGalley for an honest review.
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Stephanie M.
Hopkins
