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Sunday, April 19, 2015
"A Hunted Man" by Jaime Reese
This is the second book in the Men of Halfway House series, and I didn't like it as much as the first, "A Better Man". Cam is just out of prison for serving 10 years for manslaughter and has moved into Halfway House to adjust to life on the outside. He's only 27, so he has no real skills or formal work experience. Luckily, Matt, who runs Halfway House, gets him a job at a mom and pop coffee shop where Cam meets Hunter Donovan, Assistant State Attorney and regular customer. Soon, Hunter is trying to clear Cam's name when he realizes that a drug cartel and dirty judge railroaded him into prison for what was clearly self-defense. Then dangerous men start following Cam around, showing up at his work and even breaking into Halfway House and Hunter's home to get to him. Action and suspense dominate the second half of the book, but I would have rather had it focus on Cam's adjustment to the real world and dealing with his PTSD after his abuse in prison. Still, there were great supporting characters, especially Hunter's dad, and we got to see some of Matt and Julian from the first book. I'll be reading book three soon. 378 pages.
Labels:
action,
Annie,
contemporary romance,
drug cartels,
ex-cons,
family,
Florida,
lawyers,
LGBTQIA,
PTSD,
Romantic Suspense
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