Pages: 384
Series: LOST #4
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Source: Amazon
Also in this series: Taken, Wrecked, Shattered, Broken
Also by this author: Taken, After the Dark, Wrecked, Shattered, Before the Dawn, Into the Night, Broken, Frozen in Ice , Touched By Ice , How to Heal a Heartbreak , Trapped In Ice
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In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel featuring the Last Option Search Team (LOST), one agent’s investigation entices a killer into making her his prey.
PARTNERS . . . FRIENDS . . .
Forensic anthropologist Victoria Palmer has always been better with the dead than the living. Shutting down her emotions, she lets few people in. But then Victoria’s latest investigation takes her and agent Wade Monroe to Savannah, Georgia. Handsome, dangerous, and more than ready to play dirty on any case, Wade weakens Victoria’s aloofness with just one glance.
. . . LOVERS
Wade knows their recent cases have pushed Victoria beyond her limits. But her skills are crucial to finding a college student who went missing five years ago. Victoria is able to determine she was murdered, and that the killer is still on the loose.
And when the vicious murderer targets Victoria, Wade must do everything in his power to protect her . . . because he refuses to let a woman he loves be torn from him . . . again.
Torn is book 4 in the LOST series by Cynthia Eden and brings us back to the Last Option Search Team and the cases that keep them busy. Victoria experienced a trauma in the form of an attack in a previous book. She is still struggling with the PTSD from that event coupled with her natural affinity to avoid the living, preferring instead to stick with the dead. As a forensic anthropologist, Victoria is called upon to examine bodies found in relation to cases. However, Gabe, her boss, is sending her and Wade to look into a case where there is NO body. Viki isn’t sure what she can do to help, and is desperate to keep her secret (that she isn’t doing so well since the attack and her darker childhood secret). Wade sees right through her act and is determined to get to the heart of Viki and help her heal. Then, he can make her his.
I enjoyed the dynamic between Victoria and Wade. He is determined and she is skittish. They both have secrets though. Viki thinks her secret will force Wade to turn her in. She really underestimates him! All this develops while they are looking for a missing girl, and then another girl goes missing. Then the killer targets Viki and it becomes a game of cat and mouse. While some parts of the plot I figured out rather quickly, there was still a twist that I didn’t see coming. That rarely happens to me so when it does I am thrilled!
Torn is not my favorite of the LOST series but it is still everything I love about Cynthia Eden’s books. The sexual chemistry, the danger, the intrigue…its all well crafted and compelling! If you are a fan of romantic suspense, Cynthia Eden needs to be on your go-to author list.
- POV: 3rd
- Tears: no
- Trope: coworkers/partners
- Triggers: none
- Series/Standalone: stand alone in an interconnected series (in this case, something happened to Viki in the previous book, so it really is helpful to have read at least that one!
- Cliffhanger: View Spoiler »
- HEA: View Spoiler »
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Books by Katie Reus, LP Dover, Katee Robert, Janie Crouch…then you will probably like Torn!
I really need to read this series so much, I believe I have books one and two on my shelves just waiting to be read. Glad you liked this one even if it wasn’t your favorite of the series.
Yes, I love this series!! I am a HUGE Cynthia Eden fan girl!! She writes the best romantic suspense.