I've enjoyed her first 2 books though some of the descriptions of violence/torture bothered me. Some romantic suspense is really too much for me. I wont' repeat on the theme but the reader knows who the killer is and knows it's a very close friend. He loves his friends and kills them believing he's saving them from the suffering of their childhoods because he himself is suffering from it.There are a lot of deaths in this book and violence. Even though that part only takes a page or so it has the person crying/begging and some he even has commit suicide with a threat to harm someone they love. This was hard for me to take and I know there are probably other 'wimps' like me who would appreciate a little warning. I did finish the book and think she did a much better job with the suspense but the romance part was overshadowed I felt like though the ending and epilogue were 'sweet'. Grant was my favorite guy from the 2 previous books and I looked forward to reading his story. I like how foster care and adoption were discussed somewhat and the concept of family. Overall a good read but know you're dealing with psycho stuff and someone very close killing his own friends.

Isabelle Carson knows these people, and she knows they'd never commit suicide, especially her friend Beverly. They all shared a past; all were foster kids in the home of the molesting, pedofile Lavine. Fourteen years earlier, Grant had been moved to Lavine's care. One night, while sneaking out, he came upon Lavine trying to rape Isabelle, his rage snapped his control and he put a permanent halt to Lavine's molestations.

Fourteen years later, now a Delta Force vet, he's been receiving birthday cards and Christmas cards from Isabelle all these years. But her phone call left him worried, for it wasn't just her words, but her tone of voice that was off. Something was going on, and Grant is determined to find out.

Now a foster mom to seventeen-year-old Dale Townsend, Isabelle is frightened; Wyatt, Dale's father, is now out of jail, and he wants his son, even if Dale doesn't want him. And people that she cares about are dying, and she's sure they're not suicides. She's been to the police, but they don't believe her. But Grant does, for he's found something in her research that the police never saw... the 'suicides' are happening in the order that they had gone to live with Lavine.

Now the police are taking it seriously. However, will they find the killer in time before Isabelle becomes his next 'suicide'?

Totally awesome and I can't wait for more from Shannon K. Butcher!

Isabelle is a strong woman who's determined to become a great foster mom to children who need her, some with pasts very similar to her own. She's gotten over that past, and her determination really speaks through to the author. When her cards and letter start coming back from some of her friends and fellow foster brothers and sisters, Isabelle places phone calls and doesn't like what she hears. She knows they wouldn't commit suicide, especially her friend and foster-sister Beverly, who had recently married and was the proud mother of a three-week-old baby boy. Isabelle was the one that found her, her body still warm, in the tub, her wrists slit. This was the last straw. Determined to get to the bottom of it and warn everyone else, Isabelle calls the man who'd saved her from Lavine years ago and left a message Grant didn't like.

Grant, Delta Force vet, decides on his way through to go work for David, to stop at Isabelle's and find out what's going on. At first, he believes that she believes the suicides weren't suicides, but Grant waited until he had more proof. And when that proof is found, the suicides are happening in the same order as they'd been placed in Lavine's care, Grant really believes something's going on, and it sure isn't suicide. He's determined to help, but knows he can't stay when all is solved, for the lonely and scared little boy still buried deep believes that he can't be the man that Isabelle wants, that he doesn't have it in him to be a good husband and a good father, because of his own past.

Suspenseful, fast-paced and tense, you feel what the characters are feeling. The mind of the psychotic 'suicide' killer sends chills up and down your spine. All the steamy love scenes and the climax to the story jumps your pulse into overtime until you're panting right along with the characters. And the more you yell at the characters that they have the wrong killer, the faster you read to get to the end. Unputdownable, Shannon K. Butcher at her finest. I can't wait for her next book!

I think it is great that we have a company that does this type of work and does it so good. Keep it up.