Mia was a totally normal girl at a job when her mother suddenly called and said goodbye. Mia freaked and went home, and her mother shakily entrusted her with a safe deposit box key and told her to hide, then was killed by unknown assailant. Mia ran for the bank and deposit box, only to be intercepted by Jax, who took a liking to her, but unsure if she can be trusted, only to be attacked by unknown third party, whom Mia identified as the one at her house and possibly killed her mother. They escaped the hostile dragnet and managed to head south just as US was hit by coordinated terrorist attack ahead of the world peace summit. Somehow the content of the box is linked to some sort of attack on the summit, but what?
The book managed to dial up the suspense by using two bad thriller tropes: the omniscient enemy, and the gloating heartless bad guy. By omniscient enemy, I mean the enemy somehow has unlimited resources and able to cover safehouses HOURS away from the incident as well as multiple backup vehicles and manpower all over the place searching for Jax and Mia and no matter how they run they are soon intercepted. They are clearly omniscient, yet unable to actually catch our FMC and MMC. As for gloating heartless bad guy, I'll have to spoil the ending.
SPOILER AHEAD
Any way, by the time they got the South America, with machine translation, the pair figured out they have some sort of a conspiracy where they managed to synthesize a special version of "Devil's Breath", a reputed drug if blown in the victim's face, the victim will have no self-will and will follow verbal orders, with tolerable side-effects. And it's pretty obvious the drug will be used at the summit to get something really secret. So what's next? The bad guy then burst in, but instead of killing them, they took the pair back to their secret village (where the tests took place) where the bad guy proceed to tie up the MMC, and torture FMC while asking her inane questions like "do you know your mother's a spy", then basically waterboarded her to death, then was going to use the drug on the MMC when MMC managed to turn the table on him (blow the drug in his own face) Haven't these people heard of masks? And MMC managed to CPR FMC back to life just as the cavalry arrived.
Category: Romantic suspense
Primary Plot: woman just get a secret ahead of the bad guys, good guy after the same secret had to protect her
Tropes: enemies to lovers, woman in peril, protector
Overall Rating: 4/5 (rounded up from 3.5/5)
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