I didn't like this book, and found myself skimming through the middle and end of it so I could return it to the Library. The main problem I had was that I didn't buy the plot.
Young attorney Jessica Ford is working her a** off in a lawyer firm in Washington. One night, her boss commands her to fetch the First Lady of the U.S., who apparently has ditched her Secret Services bodyguards and is drinking away in an hotel.
Jess manages to coax the lady in the car, but then all hell breaks loose. There is a car crash, the only survivor is Jess, and even though her memory of the accident is patchy, she has the terrible certainty that the crash was caused by Secret Services agents. Her theory seems to run true when someone tries to kill her in the hospital.
Mark Ryan was the Secret Service agent in charge the night that the first lady was murdered, and, guilt-ridden, is decided to find out everything about the accident... not that he actually believes that the First Lady was murdered... or that someone tried to kill Jess.
But then, Jess's boss tries to kill her and then kills himself, and his secretary is murdered. Mark takes Jess to his house to protect her, but there is a traitor in their midst, and there is no place safe for them...
OK. Witness protection? Why does a Secret Service agent have to go rogue to protect a witness? I figured out the villain the first time he/she was mentioned, and the reason for the first lady's murder is totally cliche. And there are some pretty unbelievable scenes, just to get the plot going. The hero is thick headed and kind of naive for his position, and I think Jess suffered some kind of brain damage in the accident, because she makes some dumb choices. Why do so many of Robards`heroines have to be stupid?
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