I've read nearly everything Kay Hooper has written especially the Bishop BCU books, which this book is one. This book is meant to be the start of another series with a very bad man with superpowers that needs to be stopped. I'm afraid I only got halfway through this book so I never found out who the bad guy's leader is. However, he may not be revealed until a future book anyhow.
My problem with this book was that it was boring. Nothing really happened. Geneva, one of Bishop's BCU operatives was sent in to try to figure out what was going on in this town; Geneva is a telepath with an overdeveloped sense of smell, which means she can smell blood and find dead bodies. The thing is, this town has a heavy static covering it blocking psychics. She can use her powers but it will be traced back to her and she'll be caught so she must be very careful. So she does nothing. Until a young girl is kidnapped and she feels the need to rescue her. So she goes to the house where the girl was taken late at night and gets taken herself.
Grayson is another BSU agent who has been sent in to help Geneva because Bishop is worried about Geneva. He is an empath who has the ability to see things. He is acting like a hiker off the Appalachian Trail who is taking a break. He receives a message from Geneva in the newspaper want-ads from before she went missing that tells him that she is about to do something dangerous and that if she gets caught not to worry about her it's the child that's important.
Also, a puzzle piece in this picture is Nellie Cavendish who has multiple powers and whose father asked her to come back there before her thirtieth birthday, which wasn't a problem as she felt drawn to return. The Five Families are interested in her and what her returning could mean. She keeps a rottweiler with her at all times which is wise since I think some of these people might want her dead.
I tried really hard to get through this book but I just couldn't. Geneva kept wandering around taking pictures and doing nothing and even when she got caught she was doing nothing. All Grayson did was read newspapers. And all Nellie did was wander around town. Hooper's books are always filled with action and adventure and plenty going on to keep you turning that pages as fast as you can. But this book just didn't have that. It was hard to click with the characters too. I have to give this book zero stars out of five stars.
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