Review – Twisted Innocence

From the back cover:  Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.

Though Holly’s stumbled through most of her adult life as a party girl, she longs to live a more stable life for her daughter. Then police show up to question her about the whereabouts of Creed Kershaw, Lily’s father. She has kept his identity a secret from friends and family—she never even told him about the pregnancy. Now he’s a person of interest in a drug-related murder case.

Determined to keep him out of their lives and turn him over to police, Holly uses her private investigating skills to search for him. But her bravado backfires when he turns the tables and takes her and the baby hostage. As desperate hours tick by, Holly realizes his connection to Leonard Miller—the man who has gunned down several members of her family. Creed claims he’s innocent and that Miller is after him too. His gentleness with Lily moves her, but she can’t trust a man who has held her at gunpoint . . . even if he reminds her so much of herself.

Dangers old and new threaten Holly and her baby, and lives are demanded as sacrifices for love. Through a complex web of mistakes and regret, redemption is the one hope Holly has left to hold on to.

Shakespeare told us that, “all good things come to an end”. He most certainly was correct about this series with this book it ends here. Oh, but what an ending! It has all been leading up to this. The bad guy from the first book is back and he is looking for trouble. Holly had had a one night stand and now does not want the father to know he is the father. Plus there are all kinds of other problems going on. Ms. Blackstock has provided us a first-rate mystery. If you did not read the first two books in this series don’t worry Ms. Blackstock lets you in on what is going on. However I do recommend that you do read the previous two just for your own enjoyment. Once the action gets going Ms. Blackstock revs up the thriller quotient considerably which will have you reading and flipping pages as fast as you can.  Don’t start this book late at night because it will be very difficult to put it down or stop thinking about it.