Cold Snap

4.25stars-intriguing, captivating, twisted

COLD SNAP is the third instalment in Toni Anderson’s contemporary, adult COLD JUSTICE-MOST WANTED erotic, romantic suspense series- a spin off, set in the author’s Cold Justice series. This is FBI Operator Grady Steel, and graphic designer/café owner Brynn Webster’s story line. COLD SNAP can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Brynn and Grady COLD SNAP focuses on the hunt for an FBI fugitive who has been missing for twenty-seven years, a fugitive whose finger prints have been found in Grady’s home town of Deception Cove, Maine. Undercover as a disgrace FBI agent, Grady returns home only to discover his sister has rented out his home to the woman with whom he will fall in love. Enter graphic designer turned café owner Brynn Webster. Brynn Webster has taken a six month leave of absence to help her parents in the wake of her mother’s cancer diagnosis but Brynn never suspected the small town of Deception Cover, Maine would become the epicenter of murder, Russian spies and the former KGB, animal abuse, and bank robberies, all blamed on our story line hero. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Brynn and Grady, and the potential fall-out as Brynn discovers everything about her life, Deception Cove, and the man the she loves has been predicated upon a number of lies.

Grady Steel never wanted to return to Deception Cove having escaped a life of abuse and pain but when one of the FBI’s most wanted is suspected of living in his home town, Grady must go undercover to search for the truth. All does not go according to plan as Grady becomes the number one suspect in a bank robbery, a string of murders, and a fire meant to hide suspicions of abuse. Grady’s father’s reputation has tainted our hero, and the sheriff is determined to take him down. Meanwhile Brynn Webster is struggling with the impending death of her mother, and her attraction to a man that may be a serial killer but Brynn’s world is about to be upended when she discovers that everything about her life is a lie.

The relationship between Brynn and Grady is one of mutual attraction but their time in Deception Cove comes with a deadline. Grady is working undercover, and Brynn has been pulled into an undercover operation that may or may not get both of them killed. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and questionable secondary and supporting characters most play a significant role in the story line progress: FBI Agents Payne Novak, Ryan Sullivan, Megan Donnelly, Aaronn Nash, Cowboy, Will Griffin, Kelly Ropero, Noel Dobson and Seth Hopper We are introduced to Brynn’s parents Paul and Gwen Webster, Sheriff Darrell York, security guard Saul Jones, veterinarian KalpaVilamitjana, and widower and temporary bank manager/owner Edith Bodurek. The requisite evil has many faces.

COLD SNAP is a story of secrets and lies, murder and deception, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, forgiveness, acceptance and love. The premise is intriguing, captivating and twisted; the characters are animated and energetic; the romance is seductive and provocative.