Time to Run

December 5, 2005
The tension starts early and builds throughout the third installment in Melton's romantic suspense series featuring Navy SEALs. Sara Garret, after living in fear of her hard-as-nails JAG prosecutor husband, decides to flee after he terrorizes their son, Kendal. An acquaintance, SEAL sniper Chase McCaffrey, who appeared in Melton's In the Dark
, reluctantly offers a means of escape. Headed to Oklahoma to check on a ranch inherited from an abusive stepfather, Chase decides not to let memories of his own miserable childhood keep him from helping mother and son. Soon he's using all his skills to keep himself, Kendal and Sara safe. When they arrive at the ranch, they discover that Chase's dead stepfather played a key role in a group of white supremacists. As Sara's husband closes in and the skinheads prove increasingly dangerous, Chase's growing love for Sara presents an even greater threat as it undermines the grip he's held on his emotions all these years. Melton, who writes medieval romances as Marliss Moon, doesn't miss a beat in this involving story.

February 1, 2006
After Garret, her abusive husband, strangles her son's pet to "teach him a lesson," Sara begs Chase McCaffrey to help them disappear. Using his SEAL training, he spirits them away to his forsaken Oklahoma ranch, an unexpected legacy from his hated stepfather, but ends up clashing with a group of skinheads using the place to store illegal weapons in preparation for a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, Garret is hot on Sara's trail with vengeance in mind and an Amber Alert in force to help him. Melton's edgy contemporary romantic suspense winds up the SEAL Team Twelve trilogy--" Forget Me Not" (2004) and " In The Dark" (2005)--with emotional fireworks as well as some fancy sniper shooting, courtesy of Chase's military training and expertise. Once again Hannah Geary Lindstrom plays a pivotal part in the proceedings, facilitating romance while she protects Sara and her son's new identities, and puts the FBI's vast resources to work ferreting out the skinheads' plans.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)