Send Me a Hero (Harlequin Intrigue , No 486)

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Summary: I loved this story!
Review: Gripping read from page one. A cut above your typical amnesia story. Full of wonderful plot twists and turns that leave you guessing right up until the hair-raising end.

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Summary: Gripping read from page one.
Review: Gripping read from page one. A cut above your typical amnesia story. Full of wonderful plot twists and turns that leave you guessing right up until the hair-raising end.

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Summary: I loved this story!
Review: I had read Ms. Herron's previous short contemporaries, but since they weren't romantic suspense, I wasn't prepared for the emotional depth of her writing in this one. A hair-raising, exciting ride from beginning to end. I'll be looking forward to more Intrigues from this very talented new author.

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Summary: A smooth blending of mystery and romance.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Rita Herron smoothly blended the romance and mystery, keeping me turning the pages from beginning to end. I'm looking forward to her next one.

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Summary: A Nice First Effort, but Not That Great
Review: Rita Herron's first Harlequin Intrigue is a nice effort, but is ultimately a bit too repetitive and dull. Veronica Miller has returned to her hometown twenty years after her parents were murdered. The townspeople seem to wish she'd leave again--for good--and someone seems determined to either kill her or drive her insane. Only Detective Nathan Dawson believes her. A slam-bang beginning quickly falls into a rut. Something suspicious happens to Veronica, Nathan comforts her, sexual tension abounds, rinse, repeat. That's pretty much all that happens for the first 150 pages: one threat, one bit of investigating after another, only interrupted when they finally have sex. Even worse than being repetitive, it's not very exciting to begin with. They don't even begin to piece together anything useful for solving the mystery until the 175-page mark, and thereafter, everything becomes really slapdash. None of the characters other than Nathan and Veronica are very well developed--a problem considering there's at least twelve other relevant characters, and I didn't care for how Veronica spends most of the book guilt-stricken ("I cause people to die," she tells Nathan on page 247), yet the epilogue simply says she gets some therapy, and by the time the book ends on page 249, she's all better. Huh? Still, I was just glad it was over, considering how long it seemed to take to get through it. All in all, I expected more.