Head On by Colleen Thompson
HEAD ON
By Colleen Thompson
A Dorchester Love Spell Romantic Suspense
(July Release)
ISBN 978-0-505-52713-4
Beth Ann Decker has worked hard to lose the title of Official Tragic Figure of her small Texas hometown since that long ago night when a terrible accident killed three other teen-aged cheerleaders and left her crippled and scarred. She survived the surgeries and physical therapy, and has proved herself of worth as a hospice nurse, helping the terminally ill and their families
deal with death.
Now the gruesome murder of a loved one has her using all her knowledge to deal with her own grief, and the entire population is back to calling her “Poor Beth Ann.”
The other driver in that fateful wreck, Mark Jessup, has grown up. He has built both a financially successful and philanthropic business and is raising his son alone, hopefully in a home with more love and support than he received as a boy. Now Mark has returned to Eudena to care for his dying father, the very man who disowned him sixteen years before when he proved himself worthy of the town’s bad boy label of “Hell On Wheels” by causing the accident that killed three girls, including his own sister.
Mark did his time for the crime, and has become a better man through the grief of his actions. While he feels he is foolish to hope for his father’s forgiveness, he knows he must try, even if it means bringing his mixed race son into the bosom of the conservative
Texas Bible Belt. While willing to handle any aspersions the town might throw at him, even the suspicion of a horrible murder, he will not tolerate the least bit of disrespect toward his child.
When Beth Ann shows up with her cane at his door to administer care to his father, both must deal with their memories and their grief. And when the underlying attraction of their earlier years collides with the passion that ignites between them now, Beth Ann
knows it is not pity that she sees in this man’s eyes, but only the heat of desire.
But what would someone do to avenge the past or to hide the dangerous secrets that would destroy them? A small town web of deceit and fear threatens to end not only the fragile bonds of Mark and Beth Ann’s budding love, but their very lives, including the life of an innocent five-year-old boy. Colleen Thompson has created a spine-chilling story with realistic and frightening plot twists and two powerful characters, each finding their own truths in those of the past. Fast-paced yet sweetly sensitive, this story will have you glued to its pages. Enjoy!
-Reviewed by Jo Anne Banker
