About the Book:
After the FBI suspends her for bending the rules, Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is looking for a chance to redeem her career and re-start her life.
Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out who' fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something bigger - and more sinister - is ruining Emerald Meadows.
She's never felt more alone.
Her one contact wit the FBI is Special Agent Jack Stephanson, a guy who seems to jump from antagonistic to genuine friend depending on the time of day. And she can't turn to her family for support. They're off-limits while she's undercover, and her mother isn't speaking to her anyway, having been confined to a mental hospital following a psychotic breakdown. Adding insult to her isolation, Raleigh's fiance wants then to begin their life together - now - precisely when she's been ordered not to be herself.
With just days left before the season ends, Raleigh races to stop the killing and find out who's behind the track's trouble, all while trying to determine if Jack is friend or foe, and whether marrying her fiance will make things better - or worse.
Raleigh is walking through the darkest night she's faces, searching for a place where the stars shine bright.
Meet Sibella Giorello:
Sibella Giorello grew up in the mountains of Alaska admiring the beauty and nature that surrounded her. She majored in geology at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts hoping to learn more about the landscape she loved back home. From there Sibella followed a winding path, much like the motorcycle ride she took across the country, which led to her true love, journalism.
She found herself in Seattle writing for a rock-n-roll magazine and earned a journalism degree from the University of Washington before heading south to the land of great stories.
In Virginia, Sibella became a features writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It was there she also met her husband and would hear Jesus whispering her name at a tent revival.
Sibella started writing about Raleigh Harmon as a way to keep her love of story-telling alive while staying home with her young sons. As a journalist and author, her stories have won state and national awards, including two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. The Stones Cry Out, the first Raleigh Harmon novel, won a Christy award for debut novel in 2008. Sibella now lives in Washington state with her husband and sons.
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What I Thought About the Book:
I will admit for the first few chapters I had trouble getting into the book, but once I got going I could hardly wait to find out what happened and why. Raleigh is a complex character who is determined and a little stubborn and wants to do what's right even sometimes when how she does it stretches the rules just a little. It was easy to picture what was happening and to get caught up in all the characters of the book, although some of them were a little less than savory. I felt like I was on the adventure with Raleigh and I wanted things to work out in a certain way. Little did I know that there was something special planned for her and I loved how it all wrapped up. I am hoping there is even more with Raleigh Harmon in the future.
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I received a copy of the book for the purpose of this review. I was not compensated in any other way for this review. All opinions expressed here are my own and in no way influenced by the author or the publisher.
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