Betrayed
ISBN-13: 978-1466216136
ISBN-10: 1466216131
Brooklyn, (Brook), has grown accustomed to her routines, her rich husband, and her comfortable way of life. Behind a gated community’s surroundings, she is safe and sheltered.
A meaningless errand to pick up a book for her husband’s boss transports her to a world in which she has had no connection or previous exposure before. A seedy side of town with caricatures of the meanest sort send her running back to safety and her car, but waiting within, a carjacker is interrupted by her untimely return. In moments, Brook’s life is a living nightmare. Now a prisoner, she endures the seemingly unending humiliations that go hand-in-hand with the environment she has been shoved into accidentally.
Lance is a man who has run from his past. He’s found his secluded cabin and dug in with vigor. His break from society has been solace from a memory he longs to forget. A rugged way of life and limited contact of the smallest sort with the rest of the world has been his salvation until Brook arrives unexpectedly, bruised, battered, and desperate.
I held my breath as Brook battled to survive, as Lance fought with inner demons, and covered my eyes, peeking out to read just a little more during the more brutal details.
By all rights, Wodke Hawkinson should be sitting in their respective dens with a nice fat contract with one of the larger publishing houses. Their tale is professionally told with an artistic ease that draws the reader into the environment they have spun. Not once did I feel jarred from the story by some incongruence or another. Everything fit and everything was described with the brush of those that truly know how to spin a good yarn.
I highly recommend this book and am happy I purchased it in paperback so that no battery-outage or dropping of technological gizmos will ever deprive me of picking it back up to read yet again.
It may be purchased here: Betrayed
