Title: 11 Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: December 26, 2014
Publisher: Cedar River Press
ASIN: B00PSXAWMU
Eleven. For three long years that’s what she was called by The Collector, the sexual sadist who enslaved her.
Mia Deleon fought the odds and escaped only to discover that no one would believe her about the ordeal she’d endured. Not the police. Not her family or friends. Even the investigators she hired couldn’t find a trace of the sexual predator. So with help she disappeared, always looking over her shoulder, living in the shadows. Knowing she’d never be safe while he was still free.
Security expert Jude Bishop had helped her vanish. Now he’s been hired to bring Mia back. A criminal profiler may have discovered a tenuous link to her case. But Jude is nearly too late because The Collector has already found Mia, too. And their race to trail the sexual sadist turned killer brings Mia ever closer to the man obsessed with her.
Because she became his prized possession the moment she’d evaded him. And he’ll stop at nothing to see his collection finally complete...
My rating:
Mia Deleon had spent three torturous years in the hands of a sadistic sexual predator before managing to escape. Yet she's never been able to really enjoy her freedom. Her kidnapper and torturer has never been found because no one had really believed she'd been taken, and even after she left the country her backpack packed with multiple assumed names, she's kept looking over her shoulder, expecting the monster to find her any day.
Until he did...
But Jude Bishop, the man who helped her disappear five years before, got to her first. A tenuous link to her case has been found by the Mindhunters and Jude has been tasked with bringing her back to the States.
But the monster is also on her tail, determined to bring her back, and keep her forever this time.
An interesting, intense and rather gripping (at times) thriller that could've easily done without the poor attempt at romance.
The story was engaging, the pacing appropriately fast, and the characters interesting (although the heroine did make a few strange/bad decisions along the way). Well-written and well-structured, although I couldn't help but think there were pieces of the story missing.
Why did the monster do what he did? How and why did he start? How did he choose his collection? What was his motive?...All these and more questions about the villain (the ending seemed rushed and a tad too easy, BTW) remained unanswered, making the main story arc appear rather hole-y.
3 stars, bodyguard/military/merc/gov/cop/spy, contemporary, contemporary romance, Kylie Brant, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller
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