5 Stars
Forty years ago there was a criminal compound reminiscent of Waco, Texas. Two of these domestic terrorists are still at large. Left behind at the crime scene was DNA from a newborn child. In current times a DNA hit has come up at a Southern murder trial. Dawson Scott is searching for his next assignment. As an Afghanistan war reporter he should have his pick of assignments, but is pushed by his friend and FBI informant to check out this story. He makes his way down South and gets embroiled in a whole new type of adventure. Amelia Wesson is the ex-wife of the missing and presumed dead marine vet Jeremy Wesson. Sparks fly and so do bullets in this romantic thriller from Brown. I love that I didn’t have everything figured out in the first hundred pages, because you want/need to keep going to find out if there will be a happy ending.