Fatal Exchange (Southern Crimes Book #2): A Novel

by Lisa Harris

Overview

Emily Hunt might come from a family of cops, but she never goes looking for an adrenaline rush. She lives the quiet--well, relatively quiet--life of a teacher and thrives on making a difference in the lives of her students. But she'll have to draw on a well of strength and savvy she didn't know she had as student Rafael Cerda takes her class hostage for ransom money to save his brother's life.

Undercover cop Mason Taylor has been working with Rafael to find his brother and bring the cartel thugs who hold him to justice. Can he talk Rafael down from his impulsive actions? And is there something more sinister at work here than he realizes?

Fatal Exchange draws readers into a complex matrix of intertwining lives and unraveling secrets, where every answer creates more questions. Romantic suspense fans will hardly want to come up for air.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441245014
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Series:	Southern Crimes , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	29,102
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Lisa Harris is a Christy Award finalist and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 from Romantic Times. The author of more than twenty books, including Dangerous Passage, Harris has spent over ten years living with her family as missionaries in Mozambique, where she leads a women's group and runs a nonprofit organization that works alongside their church-planting ministry. Learn more at www.lisaharriswrites.com.
Lisa Harris is a bestselling author, a Christy Award winner, and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 from Romantic Times. She has sold over thirty novels and novella collections. Along with her husband, she and her three children have spent over ten years living as missionaries in Africa where she homeschools, leads a women's group, and runs a nonprofit organization that works alongside their church-planting ministry. The ECHO Project works in southern Africa promoting Education, Compassion, Health, and Opportunity and is a way for her to "speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves . . . the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice" (Proverbs 31:8).

When she's not working, she loves hanging out with her family, cooking different ethnic dishes, photography, and heading into the African bush on safari. For more information about her books and life in Africa, visit her website at www.lisaharriswrites.com or her blog at http://myblogintheheartofafrica.blogspot.com. For more information about The ECHO Project, please visit www.theECHOproject.org.

Editorial Reviews

04/15/2014
Teacher Emily Hunt finds herself held hostage with her class when a favorite student, Rafael, whose brother has been abducted by drug dealers, enters her classroom wielding a gun. Her only hope is undercover cop Mason Taylor, a friend of her deceased brother. Mason has always been attracted to Emily, but their different faiths have been a stumbling block to a romantic relationship. The hostage situation is finally defused, but then Emily's niece is kidnapped. Rafael is their closest link to the drug cartel, and Emily and Mason need him to tell what he knows before time runs out. VERDICT Harris's follow up to Dangerous Passage is packed with plenty of nail-biting action. Add her signature complex characters, a well-developed Southern setting, and a dash of romance, and you have a compelling, quick read to satisfy the most rabid romantic suspense fan. Harris is a Christy Award finalist and RT Book Reviews winner for Best Inspirational Suspense Novel.

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