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beauty of the Smoky Mountains makes an excellent backdrop to a prime mystery with a welllaid plot and characters readers will find hard to forget.
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Miniseries: Bitterwood P, D.
Category: Suspense

This is a story i wanted to get back to every time i set it down.
There is an underlying plot within these firstbooks with plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing about whats really going on.
This bookhas a satisfactory ending but not a full conclusion, I assume that will be in future books in the series so I will have to find a way to acquire them.
Paula Graves is one of my favourite authors where neither the heroes nor the heroines are too stupid to live.
Instead they are wonderfully rounded characters who I'm delighted to meet within the pages of a book,

They are GOOD people with values who struggle with real problems, Seth is a great hero who has done astep program and made the effort to make amends for his past crimes.
There is so much to admire in the moral strength of this character,

The story is entertaining but ultimately it was uplifting for me because these were characters who overcame their circumstances and their adversaries by their determination and hard work.


A really good read, I recommend this book. sitelink blogspot. com/
As always I enjoyed this book by Paula, Have yet to be disappointed by Paula as she adds plenty of drama, passion, and romance, She captures the small town feel and you really feel as if the characters in her books are real.
Look forward to the next book in this series,
I can't wait for the next book in the Bitterwood P, D. series. The book is due out in August“Smoky Ridge Curse” featuring Adam Brands story,



Rachel Davenport is trying to grieve for her father and her friends in Bitterwood who have recently passed.
She wants to appear strong even while she is falling apart inside,

Seth Hammond was a conman who is now trying to atone for those sins, He feels bad for all the cons he pulled and is working on becoming a better man, He has many secrets he still has to keep especially as he is secretly working for Adam Brand from the FBI and has been ordered to keep an

eye on Rachel.
When he came back to town Rachel and her father gave him second chance and he is currently working for Davenport Trucking.
While at the same time trying to figure out who is killing the people around Rachel, Why is she targeted and for what purpose

After Rachel is drugged and almost went over a bridge Seth decides to investigate to figure out what happened.


Rachel is on the phone with an exboyfriend who came to town for the funeral when he gets attacked.
She tries to track him down and comes across Seth who has also been attacked, They decide to team up and investigate together to find out what is going on,

Rachel has her own dark secrets of her past that she needs to overcome as someone is trying to make her think she is going crazy.


Seth opens up about his childhood and how it shaped him into the man he is today.


Everywhere Rachel and Seth go to get answers everyone treats Seth like he is still a conman and he has to defend himself.
Even his sister Delilah and old friend Sutton dont believe him at first about his suspicions about what is going on with Rachel.
That makes Rachel question his motives multiple times,










Read the book to get answers to the below:

Will Rachel amp Seth figure out why someone wants Rachel crazy or dead

What shaped them both into the people they are today

Can Rachel trust Seth



Some favorite parts from this book:


The road into Bitterwood proper from the mountains was a winding series of switchback and straightaways called Old Purgatory Road.
Back in the day, when they were just kids, Delilah, a couple of years older and eons wiser, had told Seth that it was named so because hell was located in a deep, dark cavern in the heart of Smoky Ridge, their mountain home, and the only way to get in or out was Purgatory Road.




“I thought the first rule of the con game was that you couldnt con an honest man.
” She wasnt sure where shed heard that, but shed always considered it to be a reasonable assumption, Honest men didnt fall for deals that where too good to be true,

Seth shook his head, “Honest man can be conned, Everyone has a price, even if the price is honorable, ” He grimaced. “I guess never breaking the law if you dont have to isnt necessarily the first rule of the con game, but it was the first rule Cleve Calhoun taught me.
”



Ah, Seth thought, Now we get to the grilling part, “I knew the murder victims, I liked them, and I like Rachel Davenport, too, Her father took a chance on me when he hired me at the trucking company when most people around here wouldnt spit on me if I was on fire.
”



He was beautiful, she thought, standing there in the middle of her haven, Beautiful and feral, constantly on the edge of flight, Despite the façade civilization, despite his obvious attempts to fight his own wild instincts, he would never be fully tame.
He would never be genteel or domesticated, Hed always be a wild card,



“The people at a show know what theyre seeing isnt real,” Seth answered slowly, “Theyre willing participants in their own deception, ”

Uncle Rafes welllined face creased with a smile, “Damn good answer, boy. ” He hooked his arm through Rachels and led her to the second row of tables facing the large stage.
“Gotta go start deceiving this room full of willing participants in their own deception, ” He said with a wink in Seths direction, “Youll stick around after the show, of course”



His gaze snapped back to hers, “You know what con men really do, Rachel The kill you soul, You start out a normal person, Caring. Trusting. And then he strikes, and youre never the same, You trust no one. Nothing. Youre afraid to be nice, because it makes you vulnerable, Youre afraid to care because it makes you an easy mark, You meet a nice guy, a good guy, a guy who would treat you right, and you cant let yourself believe him because you know sweet words and a tender touch can hide a monster.
” He leaned toward her, his gaze so intense it made her stomach quiver, “Thats what I did to Lauren Blount, Its what I did to God knows how many people along the way, ”

She didnt know what to say, She didnt even know what to feel,

“I did that, ” He sat back, looking away, “I dont know how a man can forgive himself for that, I dont know how he lives with it, He can try to pay back the money, he can promise hell never do anything like that again, but he cant change the fact that he had kind of evil inside him and he let it have free rein.
How do I live with that”


Seth Hammond believes that someone intends to harm Rachel Davenport, so he is keeping an eye on her.
Four women close to Rachel have been killed and now someone is trying to make Rachel doubt her sanity.
This is the second in the Bitterwood P, D. miniseries in the Harlequin Intrigue imprint, This book follows Rachel Davenport and Seth Hammond as they try to figure out who is trying to drive Rachel crazy and why.
Naturally, they end up together by the end of the book not really a spoiler, they practically tell you this on the back cover.
I liked that a good bit of the book was about facing fears, I thought that worked really well, This series reminds me of a soap opera though, with each book/episode focusing on a different couple involved in the same overarching story.
This one leaves you hanging with a third book to follow, .