RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars
DANGEROUS CURRENTS by Katheryn Knight is a contemporary second chance romance with a suspense sub-plot. This book focuses more on the romance, past and present and the difficulties facing the H/h to get to their HEA than the suspense occurring in the background during the same time period. It is a well written, emotionally charged romance due to long held secrets and misunderstandings more than a romantic suspense as the summary leads you to believe.
Malorie Montgomery has returned to Cape Cod for a fresh start. She plans on helping her best friend set up her non-profit and teach business courses at the local community college. While taking her dog for a walk, she stumbles on a partially buried body. When she screams for help the boy, now man, who broke her heart in high school and never left her thoughts, shows up to help.
Dean Slater is surprised when he sees who called out for help while he is out on his run. She is back after seven years. Dean cannot believe the attraction is still as strong as it was their senior year of high school. He was the poor boy who had nothing to offer this rich girl, and yet she chose him. Now, Dean and his brother inherited the house just down the street from Malorie’s and there is no way they will not run into each other around the Cape.
Malorie has a family secret that keeps her from a permanent relationship and Dean still feels inferior and undeserving of Malorie, but the heat and attraction is still there on both their parts. Misunderstandings and misconceptions need to be cleared up, secrets need exposed and danger is lurking in the background.
This is a romance that has so many layers. There is the poor boy and the rich girl high school first loves, Malorie’s secret that Dean never knew about, Dean’s shame of his step-father going to prison and his brother not stepping up as a responsible father-to-be. Dean is always the responsible one and the protector. Malorie and Dean’s relationship progresses in a realistic way and the sex scenes are hot. The suspense sub-plot of the murdered girl Malorie and Dean find adds some tension and intrigue to the story with a surprise who-done-it, but the romance could really stand on its own without it. This is a second chance romance worth reading.
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