📚’Romantic suspense story set mainly in Vermont.’ Rosie’s #BookReview of Identity by Nora Roberts #TuesdayBookBlog

Identity by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Identity is a Nora Roberts romantic suspense story set mainly in Vermont.

Morgan has big dreams, working two jobs so that she can make home improvements and one day run her own bar. She likes bar work, she’s good at reading people and takes pride in providing a great service. However, certain events cause her world and her plans to come tumbling down. Her only option is to head to her family home in Vermont and live with her mother and grandmother while she builds a new life.

Gavin stalks his victims; he takes what he wants, what he thinks he deserves and he punishes others as payback for the shortcomings of his own family. Morgan soon becomes his obsession.

This story has some dark elements which are rather gruesome in places, but these were offset by some lovely chapters set in Vermont. I liked Morgan’s family and the new occupational family that she made while working at a resort bar. There are some wonderful secondary characters, particularly a dog called Howl, and I could easily imagine more stories written in this small town setting.

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A new thriller about one man’s ice-cold malice, and one woman’s fight to reclaim her life.

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan’s job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who’d been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

Soon, a horrific truth emerges: It was Morgan who let the monster in. “Luke” is actually a cold-hearted con artist named Gavin who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits his ultimate goal: murder.

What the FBI tells Morgan is beyond chilling. Nina wasn’t his type. Morgan is. Nina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And Morgan’s nightmare is just beginning. Soon she has no choice but to flee to her mother’s home in Vermont. While she struggles to build something new, she meets another man, Miles Jameson. He isn’t flashy or flirtatious, and his family business has deep roots in town. But Gavin is still out there hunting new victims, and he hasn’t forgotten the one who got away.

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