Sometimes the past should stay there…
“OMG! Violated by Carolyn Arnold has been the most thrilling and exciting story that I have read in the longest while. I can’t believe that I have never heard of this author before now…. This is the fifth book in the [Brandon Fisher FBI series] and there is no need to read the previous books prior to reading this one. However, I can assure you that after reading Violated, you will be clamoring to get your hands on the other books in the series.”
–Totally Addicted to Reading
–Totally Addicted to Reading
Do you have regrets over some decisions you’ve made and wish that you could go back and change things? Or do you have a hard time letting go of the past? FBI agent Paige Dawson has been dealing with a hurt inflicted over twenty years ago, but the wound hadn’t even scabbed over when a turn of events has it reopen.
Just like a lot of college students, she had a wild spring break vacation in Cancun, but it got too far out of control. Her close friend was drugged and raped by three guys. The violation destroyed a young girl’s life and a suicide attempt left her in a vegetative state for most of her adult life up until recently when the girl’s mother made the call to pull the plug. The funeral is enough to drown Paige in guilt and the past overwhelms her.
If only she had seen the rape coming so she could have stopped it. If only she could have done more and had the boys held accountable years ago.
But as a college student there was only so much Paige could do, and even as time passed by as an FBI agent, any leads on their identification met with a dead end. So when Paige finally gets a solid lead to follow, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to California on “vacation,” her new boyfriend in tow. But she gets far more than she’d planned on… The man she intended to confront turns up brutally murdered. And, Paige, well, the local police peg her as the killer.
Violated shows the importance of living in the now without obsessing over the past and what can happen when we give the past power over us. This book also touches on a modern-day topic (one I can’t reveal without spoiling the book), and conveys the deeper message that we all have the right to be true to ourselves regardless of society’s approval or disapproval.
Can Paige figure out these life lessons, though, before her career is destroyed along with her future? I invite you to board a jet to California and find out. Go ahead, no passport required.
Just like a lot of college students, she had a wild spring break vacation in Cancun, but it got too far out of control. Her close friend was drugged and raped by three guys. The violation destroyed a young girl’s life and a suicide attempt left her in a vegetative state for most of her adult life up until recently when the girl’s mother made the call to pull the plug. The funeral is enough to drown Paige in guilt and the past overwhelms her.
If only she had seen the rape coming so she could have stopped it. If only she could have done more and had the boys held accountable years ago.
But as a college student there was only so much Paige could do, and even as time passed by as an FBI agent, any leads on their identification met with a dead end. So when Paige finally gets a solid lead to follow, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to California on “vacation,” her new boyfriend in tow. But she gets far more than she’d planned on… The man she intended to confront turns up brutally murdered. And, Paige, well, the local police peg her as the killer.
Violated shows the importance of living in the now without obsessing over the past and what can happen when we give the past power over us. This book also touches on a modern-day topic (one I can’t reveal without spoiling the book), and conveys the deeper message that we all have the right to be true to ourselves regardless of society’s approval or disapproval.
Can Paige figure out these life lessons, though, before her career is destroyed along with her future? I invite you to board a jet to California and find out. Go ahead, no passport required.
Book Overview:
Sometimes the past should stay there…
Sometimes the past should stay there…
The murder is one of the most heinous FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher has ever seen. But that’s not why he and two members of the team are rushing to California. The Bureau is interested because the prime suspect is one of their own, Paige Dawson.
But Paige didn’t go to Valencia to kill anyone. She had set out on “vacation”—her new lover in tow—only to confront the man who raped her friend twenty-some years ago. While the hands of the law are tied, she wants him to face the fact that he destroyed a young woman’s life and know that, as an FBI agent, she’ll be watching his every move. Yet, instead of accomplishing her goal, she wound up in the back of a police cruiser.
Now Paige must face off with a hard-nosed detective determined to stick a murder charge to a fed. But with the trained eyes of the FBI on the case, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the evidence lends itself to a serial killing, not an isolated incident. And as long as the local authorities are focused on Paige, the real murderer is still out there, possibly waiting to strike again…
But Paige didn’t go to Valencia to kill anyone. She had set out on “vacation”—her new lover in tow—only to confront the man who raped her friend twenty-some years ago. While the hands of the law are tied, she wants him to face the fact that he destroyed a young woman’s life and know that, as an FBI agent, she’ll be watching his every move. Yet, instead of accomplishing her goal, she wound up in the back of a police cruiser.
Now Paige must face off with a hard-nosed detective determined to stick a murder charge to a fed. But with the trained eyes of the FBI on the case, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the evidence lends itself to a serial killing, not an isolated incident. And as long as the local authorities are focused on Paige, the real murderer is still out there, possibly waiting to strike again…
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WOW! This was
JUST the book I needed! Violated was so much better than I ever could have
expected. I kind of NEED the first four books now. Violated was my first
experience with Carolyn Arnold and I can tell you right now that she has made
it onto my “Must Buy” list! Now, while I want to go back and read the other
Brandon Fisher series books this isn’t something you have to do to read
Violated. It can be read just fine by itself. I’ve been in a rut with books
lately… there just hasn’t been any really good books that have pulled me, you
know, sucked me in without a choice. This is what has made me want to read the
other four books.
There was quite
a few characters, but, Arnold made it so all the characters were people… they
had their strengths and weaknesses… they were like real people, so it really
made them relatable. Paige was extremely likable for me! This was a difficult
story at times… the scenes were so graphic at times. It felt real. My favorite
part of this book might have been getting inside the killer’s head. I love
getting their perspectives especially when it’s countered with the hunters.
Anyway, I really found the killer’s thought process interesting. He was so
precise, so thought out, like everything was planned specifically. Usually I
only enjoy a dual fist person POV but this book had first and third person POV.
I liked it. We get a dual POV with Brandon and the killer and everyone else is
in third person… it really was interesting. I felt like I got so much more out
of it. I was more surprised that I didn’t get lost or overwhelmed. But Arnold
changed perspectives flawlessly.
I received an ARC of this book
with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to
leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my
opinions.
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