Promise Not To Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz

In this sequel to When Have All the Girls Gone, which you don't have to have read to read this book, Krentz turns her attention to the brooding brother Cabot Sutter.  When Virginia Troy walks into his new detective agency that he runs with his brothers and his father because she recognizes the name Salinas as being that of the sheriff who rescued her all those years ago from the fire set by cult leader Quinton Zane.  Cabot and his two brothers were also rescued by Anton Salinas and later he became their foster father and raised them when no family members came forward to claim them. 

Virginia suspects something suspicious about the death of her friend, artist Hannah Brewster a former cult member, who it is believed to have jumped over the cliff near her home on one of the San Juan islands after torching her house.  What makes her doubt this is that she sent her a camera with one picture on it: the last painting of a series of paintings she had been doing of the night the compound went up.  In this last picture is a clear picture of Quinton Zane wherein the others the face was hazy. There's also a picture of a modern car in the background.  Salinas and his boys believe that Zane faked his death and is alive and well but haven't been able to find him.  This could be a major clue. 

Meanwhile, someone at Nightwatch, a small tech company, is searching Victoria's home and art gallery business for a missing key that will lead to Quinton Zane's missing money.   His ex-lover with whom he designed an app for the company, which he took credit for, is found dead at the gallery in the locked storeroom where Hannah's paintings of the fire are stored.

While Virginia and Cabot are looking for a connection between Nightwatch and Quinton Zane, the two become quite close. Neither one has a great track record in the relationship department.  Virginia has anxiety attacks and the last time she had sex she had one during it which imploded the relationship.  I love that this book doesn't make their first time together perfect with him "curing" her right off of the bat or anything.  Or that just because they get close and form a relationship it doesn't stop him from getting up at 1:35 in the morning.  Virginia and Cabot are great characters too that I came to really care about.  This book also held some real surprises for me. I didn't have it all figured out and that was refreshing. I highly recommend this book. 

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