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Ashes Ashes

Author: Julie Coulter Bellon

Publisher: Self

Published: May 30, 2013

ISBN13: 9781484886403

Paperback: 219 pages

FTC FYC: Received an ePub copy for a honest review.

Summary

Are you ever really innocent until proven guilty? Sophia Naziri is wanted for questioning in the murder of a U.S. senator. She’s worried the police will show up on her doorstep any moment, but when Detective Colby Black appears, it’s to help her put out a kitchen fire, not take her in. Yet. His easy smile and persistence in getting to know her pushes all her troubles to the back of her mind, until a hit man tracks her down. Getting arrested becomes the least of her worries and the handsome detective could be her only way out---if she tells him the truth. Colby Black’s sniper skills have been a blessing and a curse to him. As a member of a Hostage Negotiation Team, he can use them to save people, but sometimes he can’t protect the innocent despite his best efforts. When a hostage situation goes bad, he tries to put it behind him by helping out his mysterious next-door neighbor, Sophia Naziri. But she pulls Colby into a web of lies and conspiracy that will force him to use every skill he has in order to survive. Faced with the moment of truth, can he trust anyone around him---including the woman at the center of it all?

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My Review

Ashes Ashes, is a fast-paced thriller that you will finish quickly, since you won't be able to stop reading.  As with the other books of Julie's I've read, the characters are likable and very well written and the plot is enjoyable.  I really liked Colby and Sophia.  Colby would be the perfect guy-next-door neighbor.  A great cook, clean freak, and friendly.  I liked how Julie would give the reader hints throughout, and ended her chapters in such a way it kept me reading eagerly.  

4 out of 5 stars.  I was also happy for an update on Rafe and Claire, characters from All Fall Down. 

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Author Julie Coulter Bellon

Julie is the author of seven international suspense novels: Through Love's Trials, On the Edge, Time Will Tell, All's Fair, Dangerous Connections, Ribbon of Darkness and All Fall Down. She loves her work partly because she gets to travel to distant lands to research and add an authentic feel to all of her books. Her favorite cities so far are Athens, Paris, Ottawa, and London. She taught journalism at BYU for fourteen years and that kept her on the cutting edge of current events and world news---which is where she gets her story ideas. She also has one non-fiction title: Be Prepared: A Parent's Guide to the Duty to God and Eagle Scout Awards---What You Should Know and is part of two compilations, How Will Christmas Find Us and Life Lessons From Mothers of Faith. She is the mother of eight children and when she's not busy being a mom or a writer, you will find her browsing through bookstores to add to her book collection, at the library borrowing books, or reading the treasures she's found.

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