If driving a piece-of-crap tow truck through the seediest part of town with a Smith & Wesson beside her means putting a roof over her son's head, then Samantha Jones is going to be the best damn repo woman on the books. The streetwalkers, the drug pushers, the bands of looking-for-trouble punks haunting the mean streets at midnight don't intimidate her. These are her people. The guy she finds bound and bloodied in the trunk of her latest conquest, a flashy new BMW, is a different breed entirely.
Daniel Panterro was certain he was going to die. Instead, by a stroke of luck, he was beaten to within an inch of his life and left for dead. But if he's having a bad day, Sam's day is about to get way worse. Danny knows he hasn't seen the last of the vicious drug runners who kidnapped him from protective custody. His only recourse is to take his pretty savior hostage and force her to help him. There's no going back for Sam and her four-year-old son, Tyler. They're in way too deep.
With ruthless killers stalking their trail, Sam's only choice is to trust this handsome, menacing stranger. But as she relinquishes control, Sam feels an unmistakable desire. Could she be tempted by Danny, who seems intent on protecting her and Tyler from even his own darkest secrets? And what is the price of falling in love with a man who operates on the edge of danger her heart, her life... or both?
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"Karen Robards writes a wonderful romantic suspense with lots of sexual tension but no sex until the reader both knows and empathizes with the characters. Nor does she shirk on the suspense in favor of the romantic elements. SHIVER provides enough action that endangers Samantha Jones, tow truck driver, single mom, and innocent victim, to keep the reader turning the pages. When Samantha finds a bound and bloodied man in the trunk of the fancy BMW she is repossessing, she has no idea that discovery will lead to murder and endanger the lives of her and her four-year-old son. After a hard luck childhood and a terrible judgement in men, Samantha doesn't trust easily. She certainly doesn't trust Marco, the man she rescues from the BMW's trunk. He's a corrupt cop who has has been kidnapped from protective custody by the Zeta drug cartel, the very gang he did business with before turning them into the FBI in exchange for a place in the Witness Protection Program. To Samantha, Marco is a turncoat twice: once to his oath as a FBI agent, and then to the Zeta Cartel he joined. Not that she blames him for turning on the drug cartel, but betrayal seems to be a habit of behavior to Marco. Most of all Samantha is furious that he embroiled her in his battle with the Zetas. Despite the fact that Marco seems to be a better man than his behavior indicates, despite the fact that she feels a very unwelcome attraction to him, and despite the fact that her son thinks the man is the most wonderful thing since the invention of Legos, SHE DOES NOT TRUST HIM. Even when he and several federal marshals save her from capture by the cartel, she doesn't trust him. Or is it herself she doesn't trust?
An entertaining romantic suspense written in Robards's usual rapid and lighthearted style, a modern fairy tale without the grim overtones."
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Doris (4 out of 5 stars)