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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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challenging
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emotional
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Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Forbidden Ground by Karen Harper is book two in Cold Creek trilogy. This tells the story of the oldest sister, Kate as FMC. While MMC grant owns his family’s Mill. This is a complicated story of strangers to lovers, very different from Tess and Gabe’s store. Anthropology is a part of Kate’s background. If a reader likes romantic suspense I would recommend this series by Karen Harper. This is a story while Kate and Tess’s story are different there is an undertone of mystery which moves from book one into Forbidden Grounds.
I enjoyed the first in this series but just could it get into this one at all. Really disappointed.
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A special thank you to Harlequin MIRA and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Karen Harper is back in rural Appalachia area in Cold Creek, Ohio, with (#2 Cold Creek series) with Forbidden Ground, a suspense saga of three sisters with a troubled past, coming together for a wedding of Tess (youngest sister) and Sheriff Gabe McCord from (Shattered Secrets #1). Featuring the oldest sister, Kate, an anthropologist, desiring to uncover secrets from a large burial mound and in the process gets more than she bargained for.
Although the Lockwood family beginnings in this small town had been humble, Kate, age thirty, is accustomed to the international world of academia, where she loves research and fieldwork in her area of anthropology. She is looking forward to writing a book and teaching again at the college level, as one of the youngest professors in the country.
Kate had studied in Europe and hoped being here for the wedding would give her a chance to pursue her theory that the Celts might be linked to the prehistoric but advanced Adena civilization that had lived in this area and left behind burial mounds. The scattered, man-made hills she had played on as a child could house skeletons and grave goods to help prove her theory and make a name for herself.
However, she is here to support her sister Tess, age twenty-four prepare for the upcoming wedding to Gabe, the town sheriff. Charlene, age twenty-six, is also coming in for the wedding. Kate often wonders how her younger sister could be in love, when she herself had never really needed a man-except her mentor Carson.
The two older Lockwood sisters were married only to their careers. Char, a social worker in New Mexico, among the Navajo and Kate, who liked to keep control of things. She had been this way since their father deserted the family years ago, and now that her mom had died and wouldn’t be here for the occasion, was a little sad. Kate was astounded when Tess announced she had invited their father to the wedding! How dare she, especially when he had an affair with the groom’s mother? He now had a new life, in Oregon with a new family, and Kate could not be as accepting as Tess.
Of course, Tess tries to distract Kate with handsome Grant Mason, Gabe’s best friend, who came back to the town to take over the family’s lumber mill. Not only was Kate curious to see Grant Mason, but he she also could not wait to examine the Adena burial site she had found on an old map in the university. The so-called Mason Mound was about twenty yards behind Grant’s house, and she happened to be much more eager to see it, rather than him.
The Mason Mound was a low conical prehistoric Indian mound and when he was twelve along with his friends, had seen and done all sorts of wonderful and terrible things, holding dark secrets and artifacts from the ancient dead. Grant refuses to allow Kate near the mounds, and now Kate wonders what he could be hiding and what he knows? When one of his friend’s is killed, and another injured, they have to work together to solve the murder before he is next.
The three girls all have different personalities, yet they share the excitement of finding their lifelong mates and the curse of danger until they get there.
Harper definitely has done her research and her passion and love for the history and the area; reflective throughout the pages of this fictional, intense, and suspenseful series, while mixed with contemporary romance for fun.
Looking forward to the continuation of #3 Cold Creek, with Broken Bonds, coming 12/30/14, featuring the Char, the middle sister, social worker and a relationship with Matt to solve more secrets of this mysterious town.
Fans of mystery, intrigue, history, suspense and romance will enjoy the trilogy of these adventurous Lockwood sisters and their new-found love interests.
Judith D. Collins Must Reads
Karen Harper is back in rural Appalachia area in Cold Creek, Ohio, with (#2 Cold Creek series) with Forbidden Ground, a suspense saga of three sisters with a troubled past, coming together for a wedding of Tess (youngest sister) and Sheriff Gabe McCord from (Shattered Secrets #1). Featuring the oldest sister, Kate, an anthropologist, desiring to uncover secrets from a large burial mound and in the process gets more than she bargained for.
Although the Lockwood family beginnings in this small town had been humble, Kate, age thirty, is accustomed to the international world of academia, where she loves research and fieldwork in her area of anthropology. She is looking forward to writing a book and teaching again at the college level, as one of the youngest professors in the country.
Kate had studied in Europe and hoped being here for the wedding would give her a chance to pursue her theory that the Celts might be linked to the prehistoric but advanced Adena civilization that had lived in this area and left behind burial mounds. The scattered, man-made hills she had played on as a child could house skeletons and grave goods to help prove her theory and make a name for herself.
However, she is here to support her sister Tess, age twenty-four prepare for the upcoming wedding to Gabe, the town sheriff. Charlene, age twenty-six, is also coming in for the wedding. Kate often wonders how her younger sister could be in love, when she herself had never really needed a man-except her mentor Carson.
The two older Lockwood sisters were married only to their careers. Char, a social worker in New Mexico, among the Navajo and Kate, who liked to keep control of things. She had been this way since their father deserted the family years ago, and now that her mom had died and wouldn’t be here for the occasion, was a little sad. Kate was astounded when Tess announced she had invited their father to the wedding! How dare she, especially when he had an affair with the groom’s mother? He now had a new life, in Oregon with a new family, and Kate could not be as accepting as Tess.
Of course, Tess tries to distract Kate with handsome Grant Mason, Gabe’s best friend, who came back to the town to take over the family’s lumber mill. Not only was Kate curious to see Grant Mason, but he she also could not wait to examine the Adena burial site she had found on an old map in the university. The so-called Mason Mound was about twenty yards behind Grant’s house, and she happened to be much more eager to see it, rather than him.
The Mason Mound was a low conical prehistoric Indian mound and when he was twelve along with his friends, had seen and done all sorts of wonderful and terrible things, holding dark secrets and artifacts from the ancient dead. Grant refuses to allow Kate near the mounds, and now Kate wonders what he could be hiding and what he knows? When one of his friend’s is killed, and another injured, they have to work together to solve the murder before he is next.
The three girls all have different personalities, yet they share the excitement of finding their lifelong mates and the curse of danger until they get there.
Harper definitely has done her research and her passion and love for the history and the area; reflective throughout the pages of this fictional, intense, and suspenseful series, while mixed with contemporary romance for fun.
Looking forward to the continuation of #3 Cold Creek, with Broken Bonds, coming 12/30/14, featuring the Char, the middle sister, social worker and a relationship with Matt to solve more secrets of this mysterious town.
Fans of mystery, intrigue, history, suspense and romance will enjoy the trilogy of these adventurous Lockwood sisters and their new-found love interests.
Judith D. Collins Must Reads
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Beautiful Chaos
Review notes:
-Didn't see that coming but was still right!.
-Wordy
-Not a good thing to read from dusk to dawn(literally put my heart into overdrive)
-So deliciously good!!!!!!
-Bright Star is creepier than ever!!.
Review notes:
-Didn't see that coming but was still right!.
-Wordy
-Not a good thing to read from dusk to dawn(literally put my heart into overdrive)
-So deliciously good!!!!!!
-Bright Star is creepier than ever!!.