Running Scared

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Summary: Super Damsel in Distress Story
Review: Two woman are on the run, damsels in distress, only there is no knight in shining armor who will come forward and save the day for them. Eventually they are going to have to stop and face the bad guys. They are going to have to stand on their own, first separately, then together, with the odds against them, even though they have a very good reason not to like each other, like they're both married to the same blackmailing bigamist, who is after the biggest score of them all, the President of the United States.

I was up all night with this book and didn't finish till about four in the AM. Fortunately the next day was Saturday and I didn't have to go to work. I couldn't sleep in though, because friends were coming over to help me move. Let me tell you, I was a groggy girl, but the big guys didn't seem to mind as they moved my heavy stuff, books, bookcases and all. And now that I'm safely in my new place, I think I'll reread this super story.

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Summary: RUNNING SCARED had My Pulse Running Like a Banshee on Speed
Review: What a stinking louse, Joey Sapphire's husband Mick is. First he leaves her alone over Christmas on their boat in the Caribbean, pretending to go home to Texas to visit his parents, when he's really going to Brazil to marry his pregnant girlfriend. He tells the girlfriend he's divorced, but he's not.

Right after his new and very illegal marriage, someone breaks in on their nuptial bliss and tries to kill Him. He runs away, leaving his new, young wife Nina alone to face the attacker. Mick is a coward as well as a bigamist. He's also trying to blackmail the President of the United States.

Meanwhile, while Joey is waiting for him to return, she wakes up next to a dead man, who happens to be the son of an American Ambassador and also Mick's partner in crime. It turns out the president's wife has hired some very nasty people to deal with Mick's blackmail attempt and with Mick on the run, these guys have sighted in on Joey and Nina, who now have to team up, despite the fact that they are both married to the same cowardly rat, to save their own skin.

RUNNING SCARED had my pulse running like a banshee on speed. There is more tension and suspense in this book than you can shake a stick at, plus the characters, Joey and Nina, are to die for.

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Summary: Action, Suspense, More Action, More Suspense
Review: When Joey Sapphire, who lives on a sailboat in the Caribbean, wakes next to a dead man, she knows she's in trouble. She's in Trinidad, a country that hangs murderers, she's afraid, so she drags the body up on deck, weighs it down and drops it overboard. She has no memory of going to bed with the dead man, doesn't know who he is. She must have been drugged. She wishes her husband Mick had never gone home to America to spend Christmas with his parents.

When Nina Brava, a young woman who owns part of an internet café in a Brazilian seaside town, learns that the American who got her pregnant has come back, she is happy beyond belief. But when her lover is attacked and flees, leaving her alone with the attacker, she is devastated. What kind of man runs out on his woman in those kind of circumstances.

Unknown to Nina, her runaway lover is none other that Joey's husband Mick. Mick is blackmailing Suzi Walcott, the daughter of the President of the United States and is on the run from the ex-CIA men the American First Lady has put on his trail. Now with him gone, Nina and Joey are the only link they have to the blackmailer and the goods he has on Suzi. The two young woman are nothing more than victims of a double-dealing, slimy, two-timing crud, but the CIA toughs don't know this and they are out for blood, leaving two innocent young women running scared.

When I find a author I like, I tend to read five or six books by him or her before moving on to something else. I just finished five in a row by Elizabeth Lowell, ending with her very Good RUNNING SCARED, so when I saw this book with the same title, I was intrigued. I bought it at the same time I did Ms. Lowell's, read hers, then Mr. Douglas's. Now I'm going to go onto a couple more by Mr. Douglas. He writes with attention, flair and a fast-paced style that I like and I think you'll like it too.