About the Book

Book: Targeted in the Desert

Author: Dana Mentink

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release date: March 28, 2023

Family secrets have Felicia Tennison, and the sister she never knew existed, on the run. Someone is after them, and Felicia will have to turn to someone she never wanted to see again for help—her ex. Sheriff Jude Duke vows to protect them as they race to uncover why the little girl is a target. But the search to find the answers could cost them their futures.

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My Thoughts:

Felicia has just received some startling news. She has received a note and picture from a woman who says that her sister is in danger. Felicia is shocked. She was adopted when she was just a baby, and she never went looking for her birth parents as she had a good life with her adoptive parents. They saw her through her growing up years and through her medical situation. So, receiving this news is quite shocking and spurs Felicia into action. Little does she know that she and Gracie, the little girl, are in quite a lot of danger.

Unfortunately, Felicia needs help and even more unfortunately, that help comes in the way of her ex-boyfriend Sheriff Jude Duke. They really cared for one another, but he broke up with her. Why? Well Jude has his reasons and one of them is that he is thirteen years older than her, but is that enough to not have the happiness they could have together? Or is there more? I was very invested in their relationship.

Jude will stop at nothing to protect Felicia and Gracie. These attempts on her life have him acting as her bodyguard. Of course, he loves her, but is that love enough?

I really enjoyed this last installment of the Desert Justice series and finally getting Jude's story. It was a fun adrenaline filled suspense with secrets that were just begging to be answered.

I received a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.

About the Author

Dana Mentink is a USA TODAY and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author. She’s written more than forty mystery and suspense novels for Love Inspired Suspense, Harvest House, and Poisoned Pen Press. She is honored to have received two ACFW Carol Awards, a Holt Medallion Award, and a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. Please visit her on the web at www.danamentink.com to sign up for her newsletter, or find her on Twitter, Facebook and Bookbub.

More from Dana

At last! We’ve arrived at the final book in the Desert Justice series! It seems like just yesterday I was finishing book one, about cousin Beckett Duke who was falsely imprisoned. Then we met cowboy Levi and his twin Willow, dog lover Austin, donkey rescuer Nora and FINALLY sheriff Jude Duke gets his story! I am a fan of a hero with some miles under his belt, aren’t you? Could it be because I’ve got more than a few under mine? Ending this series is bittersweet because I am thrilled that the Dukes all received their happy endings, but I’ll miss writing about their adventures in Death Valley. Hope you’ll come along on my next series. (Could be there are bloodhounds in our fictional future!)

God bless!