"A twenty-five year mystery brings danger and love."
Faceless
By: Alexandra Ivy
Genres: Suspense | Romance Suspense
Posted: August 21, 2021
Twenty-five years ago Wynter Moore's mother was killed in what the police called a mugging gone bad. Every year the intrepid restaurateur (owner of Wynter's Garden in Iowa) travels to visit her gravesite in Pike, Wisconsin. This year strange things lead Wynter to wonder what exactly happened on that night - when she was sleeping in the backseat of the car when her mother was shot. Up until now, the killer was FACELESS but it seems it wasn't an accidental death - she believes her mother was murdered and she wants the truth.
Noah Heller is a game warden and friend who wants to be more but has kept the friend zone going because after both were in grief counseling together he didn't want to chance to lose the one friend who understood him. But now Wynter has something strange that has her asking questions. She was given a photo taken by the cop who had investigated the shooting, and written on the back the simple question of why? The shooter had her purse so why kill her. With that and her determination to find out the truth - all bets are off because as Wynter raises questions danger follows and Noah isn't going to let her face any of it alone.
FACELESS is an excellent mystery - the kind that you follow along, know the answer, and find out you are so wrong. I really felt bad for Wynter finding out the truth about her mother the way she did - especially after 25 years of believing it was a robbery gone bad. The woman she knew - as a four-year-old and continued to believe her to be as an adult - was far from the truth, but she did love her daughter as the drawings she finds bear that truth. Noah is the perfect match for Wynter, he is kind and loving and almost too patient but it all works out as he finally gets the love of his life in his arms - to stay if they survive the growing threat.
Author Alexandra Ivy offers her readers a fascinating mystery, a couple (that only one of them knows they are a couple), danger, intrigue, crazy people, lovely people, and a read that will take readers away from their world and throw them into a world they won't want to leave. FACELESS is the perfect escape read!
Book Summary
BE CAREFUL
A masked robber, a gunshot, an endless nightmare left in its wake. Wynter Moore was just four years-old when she witnessed the murder of her mother. For twenty-five years she's tried to blunt the trauma with ambition. Yet each year, she shuts down her popular Iowa restaurant to return to her small hometown of Pike, Wisconsin, to grieve. Only this time, her visit will be marked by new danger and shocking discoveries about the past--and about her mother.
WHAT YOU DIG FOR
Why kill her? That's what scrawled on the picture Pike's recently deceased sheriff left behind for Wynter. Pulled from surveillance tape, it shows the fatal hold-up--and raises unnerving questions. Soon, Wynter is opening a Pandora's box of dark revelations and suspects. When frightening incidents and threats start coming, it's clear that Wynter is a target herself. Enemies seem to abound--except for one man...
YOU JUST MIGHT GET KILLED
Game warden Noah Hunter has tried to convince himself that Wynter is just a friend ever since they met in grief counseling as teenagers. But now that she's in danger, that denial is over. Traveling to her side, he helps Wynter retrace the treacherous steps of her complex mother's life--before she loses her own. Because someone wants--needs--Wynter gone, forever.
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by: Alexandra Ivy
Zebra
September 1, 2021
On Sale: August 24, 2021
Featuring: Wynter Moore; Noah Hunter
352 pages
ISBN: 1420151444
EAN: 9781420151442
Kindle: B08P7Y3WQY
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book