Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
Dr. Emory Charbonneau is a marathon
runner and she decides to run a high altitude mountain trail in the Carolinas as
part of her training. She gets off to a
great start, but shortly into her run disaster strikes. Emory awakens in a strange bed looking into
the eyes of a man who is not her husband.
Apparently she fell while running, hit her head on a rock, and is now
suffering from a very bad concussion.
While she is thankful that this man rescued her and brought her in
before the freezing temperatures of evening, she desperately wants to return
home. But her savior does not have a
phone and refuses to drive her down the fogbound mountain. As her time there goes on she begins to
wonder if her rescuer actually caused her injury and is possibly keeping her
captive.
I don’t think I’ll ruin anything by
pointing out that Brown excels at writing gripping romantic suspense. So you know there is a love story here (and
two people stuck in a cabin in the middle of nowhere kind of gives away how the
romance will blossom) and that things are most likely not what they seem. There are a lot of twists and turns in the
plot that will keep you guessing. A
great choice on audio, the reader is really good at the different voices,
especially the redneck brothers that become central to the plot.
