Fantastic romantic suspense! The perfect blend of evil mystery villain, intense FBI action, and hot, Hot, HOT sexual tension.MY SYNOPSISMonica Davenport has a past that is finally catching up with her in more ways than one. No stranger to serial killers, she joined the FBI's special group of hunters after her own run in with a sadistic killer while in her teens. She spent some time with the sicko, and now has an inside track into what drives someone like that. She's become an integral part of the elite SSD. When another man from her past joins the same team, Monica is in danger of losing herself to the one man who ever got under her skin and found the real Monica. Luke Davenport never forgot the beautiful but secretive woman that he had a brief affair with years before. So when he sees her on the other side of the table at his introductory meeting to the SSD, he makes a decision that he won't let her walk away with no explanation again. When the two are sent to a remote southern town to hunt down a suspected serial killer together, the sexual tension is off the charts, but they don't have a lot of time to spend on each other. Because now the killer is hunting FBI agents.MY THOUGHTSThis is my first Cynthia Eden book, and what a surprise it was! The woman is a natural, and this book in a word: INTENSE!! The killer is truly evil...this guy likes to see the fear in the eyes of his prey...he feeds off terror. He digs into his victim's past and figures out what they fear most in the world...then he uses that information to kill them in a way that is literally out of their very own nightmares. That's true evil there...no rhyme or reason to why he does it in this manner. And that's scary, because many serials don't really see their victims as people. But this guys HAS to...he kills them in very personal manners, and he has to understand them as well.The romance between Luke and Monica sizzles. I'm a sucker for unrequited love stories, but there tends to be few books that have a valid reason for a breakup. More often than not, I roll my eyes at the contrived manner in which an author goes about separating two people who are obviously meant to be together. Not so in this case. Cynthia Eden tells a believable story, dredging up the past in such a way that makes the reader empathize with Monica's lonely life. Luke is her perfect counterpart, neither too alpha to set aside the natural tendency of men in his position to take over in the place of a female, nor too beta that he lets her strong personality overshadow his masculinity. They have a great push and pull with each other, and their romance was believable and totally sexy.And then she instills an incredible sense of urgency in the reader. I swear, I was bouncing up and down in my seat, leaning forward and trying to hurry he agents along. HURRY, HURRY!! She's gonna DIIIIEEEE!!! But let me tell you, Eden isn't loyal to her secondary characters. This isn't a save everyone type novel. At one point, I had my hand over my mouth in shock, and I kept thinking that something would change what I knew was getting ready to happen.
