US Marshal Madison James may not be sure who shot her three months ago, but she does know one thing--it's time to get back out into the field. When her partner, Jonas Quinn, receives a message that a federal warrant just came in on a man connected to a string of bank robberies, Madison jumps at the chance to get back to work. What she and Jonas find is a bank robbery in progress that's gone wrong--and things are about to get worse.

For these bank robbers, it's never been just about the money. It's about taking risks and adrenaline rushes, and getting caught is not part of the game. When the suspects escape, Madison and Jonas must hunt them down and bring them to justice before someone else--someone close to them--gets hurt . . . or worse.

From Seattle to the San Juan Islands, bestselling author Lisa Harris takes you on a nonstop chase where feelings are complicated and failure isn't an option.     

Three months ago, US Marshal Madison James was shot in her kitchen by the person who killed her husband. Trouble is, she has no memory of the actual shooting so the killer is still at large. Today will be her first day back at work since being shot and it turns out to be a doozy. Her partner gets notice that a search warrant is going to be served on the girlfriend of a suspected bank robber and, while they don’t find the boyfriend they do arrest the girlfriend’s brother on drug charges. On their way back to the office to question the brother they hear that yet another bank robbery by this group and they rush to the bank where they manage to help get the hostages released; but the bank robbers escape in the chaos.  The chase is on to find them before anyone else gets hurt but it turns into another hostage situation and a tragic death as Madison and James chase the three escaped bank robbers across the city and state.

Adding to the action, James has had an old friend look at the cold case file about Madison’s husband’s murder and he has come up with new information and a new angle that may finally  lead them to the murderer.

We get the set-up, learning that for the three months of her recuperation James had visited Madison regularly including a standing Friday night dinner but both still insist they are just friends, just partners while fighting the growing attraction between them that both are determined to deny. Then, much like the first book we jump almost immediately into the action and it is pretty much non-stop action until the criminals are caught.  I had a few quibbles with the flow of this book. They question Kira at her home and then, while driving back to the office from the still ongoing search of Kira’s home they are diverted to a bank robbery in progress where, as it turns out, Kira is the getaway driver. That timing does not seem feasible. While they are partners the “I trust you with my life” seems a bit premature since technically they have gone on one assignment as partners and then Madison is shot and on leave for three months. There is also the mention in this book of a murder during the training where they had first met five years earlier that was not mentioned in the first book so either I am missing a short story somewhere or it just pops up with no explanation.

And, just on a personal note with parents who did marry before WWII the ages seems a bit off.  Madison having a dad that is “almost eighty” and then recounting how her great-grandmother was a French WWII war bride; well even if the grandparents married and had Madison’s dad in 1945 he would be mid-seventies, not “nearly eighty”.  “Nearly eighty” in 2021 when this book was written would have dad born in the middle of the war.  I will grant that this discrepancy is unlikely to be noticeable to anyone who is not reading this trilogy back to back.

However those minor quibbles aside this is an action-packed thriller with likeable characters and, I look forward to solving the murder of Madison’s husband. Recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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