This was pretty darned good. I got a little frustrated with the layers of secrecy, but it sure did keep the tension nice and tight! It's exciting all the way to end, too. This is free in ebook from amazon, and good enough that I added the next one to my wish list. I mean, Erika goes through a lot, but when push comes to shove she is a hero. More than once. My kind of lady. ( )

Erica Kesling is having a bad year. First, she's betrayed by her mother who opened credit cards in her name, ran up a bunch of debts, and then died in a car accident. Second, she takes a job with treasure hunter Jake Novak whom she discovers is stealing and selling the artifacts she finds for him. She runs from him but he ruins her reputation as an underwater archaeologist on the whole West Coast.

Erica heads to Washington, D.C., and a job with Talon & Drake because she has a clue that someone from there is buying the stolen artifacts. Then she is saddled with a new intern. Lee Scott is undercover looking for the head conspirator in an international artifact smuggling operation. Erica is one of his prime suspects.

Lee has to find his crook as soon as possible as his stepfather Senator Joseph Talon is getting ready to make a run for President and doesn't need any scandal to derail his campaign.

Lee and Erica fall in love despite many obstacles including that both of them are lying to each other about the reasons they are at Talon & Grant. There was a lot of emotional angst as their relationship grew. Erica doesn't know if she can deal with one more betrayal while trying to fight her way clear of, and get revenge on, Jake Novak.

The story was packed with excitement and had a really twisty mystery plot. The narrator did a good job with the different characters and with keeping up the emotional intensity of the situations Erica found herself in. ( )

Dammit. I wanted to like this book more, but — two weeks?? No. Also you know nothing about each other. Interestingly, the most interesting stuff was the mystery part of it for me. Won’t stop me from reading other books by this author but damn. I need a longer timeline. ( )

I liked this book. I didn't love it. I'm not sure why-maybe it was just not interesting enough? The characters were ok, the plot was ok. I didn't feel like there was anything fresh about this book though. However, I still liked it. I just didn't love it and I don't know that I would read the next book either. ( )

This is how you write a debut book. The authors’ knowledge of archaeology, historic art and Native American sites was evident through the book. The story which starts off in 1952 is like one large jigsaw puzzle that takes the course of the book to piece together before finally seeing the whole picture.

Erica Kesling didn’t have an easy childhood after her father died. Her credit ruined and blackballed from being able to use her degree in underwater archaeologist she now works for a large company on a different coast as a land archeologist looking for a way to make those pay who had a part in setting her up. From here the author takes us on a journey that arouses your curiosity as to what is really going on. Its full of crafty plotting and intrigues throughout.

There were a few loose ends that I am hoping will be wrapped up in future books but this reader is happy to have found a new romantic suspense author and I look forward to more books from her. ( )