Cold As Ice - Toni Anderson

 

 

Today we are celebrating the release of the newest romantic suspense title from New York Times Bestselling Author Toni Anderson! COLD AS ICE is a Cold Justice - The Negotiators novel and it is available now. Add the book to Goodreads and follow Toni for exclusive updates.

 

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 When Darby O'Roarke wakes up in a strange house with a dead man - with no memory of what happened - she knows who she has to call: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Eban Winters...the man she fell for, and who rejected her, last summer. A negotiator isn't supposed to get involved with kidnap victims, and Eban has been trying to avoid the temptation that is Darby O'Roarke ever since they met. One frantic phone call has him racing to Alaska to uncover the truth, but he faces stubborn opposition from the local police, and a growing media frenzy. Getting Darby released from jail and keeping her safe is his first priority. When another woman is brutally slain, evidence emerges that suggests Darby is being framed, and that the culprit is a vicious serial killer who has eluded the FBI for more than a decade...and, now, the killer has Darby in their sights.

Cold As Ice is the fifth title in the Cold Justice: The Negotiators series.  I was captivated by Darby and Eban’s story from the very first chapter.

Darby a strong, resilient survivor who is undertaking her PHD at the Geophysical Institute in Alaska and is slowly rebuilding her life after the harrowing abuse she endured after being kidnapped off an island in Indonesia.  When she finds herself in a compromising situation the first person, she calls for help is Eban a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI, with who she shared a bond after being rescued.

The attraction between Eban and Darby is undeniable, but he’s reluctant to further their relationship.  Despite his hesitance he’s protective, caring and patient and their chemistry is undeniable.

This title has all the action, intrigue, suspense and passion that I love in a well written romantic suspense, and the twists and turns just kept coming.  When the identity of the killer is revealed, it was quite surprising, and I was guessing until the very end.

I look forward to future additions to this series.

 

The world had lost a great scientist, a good man, because of her. She was a monster. She was a murderer. Locking her up made perfect sense. Protect other innocent people from her level of psychosis.

How could she live with what she’d done?

She squeezed her eyes closed. She’d killed a man. A man who had always been kind and friendly toward her. A man she’d laughed and danced with and had once contemplated kissing.

She held her hands out in front of her and stared at them in disbelief. How could she have done it? Killed someone in cold blood and managed to freak herself so badly she’d blocked the memory from her mind?

If felt as if an alien had inhabited her body and wiped her memories. Was this insanity? Was she genuinely mentally ill? All those hours of therapy. All the “progress” nothing but wishful thinking.

She stared into the distance. She had survived Indonesia. She had no idea how she would survive this.