Shadows at Midnight

by Elizabeth Jennings

Book Overview

Clinging to life...An embassy terrorist attack in Africa left intelligence analyst Claire Day close to death, but she remembers nothing of the attack. She was left a husk of a woman. Only a shining... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425235998
• ISBN13: 9780425235997
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Hope more like this are on the way!

Really enjoyed this book which I bought to hold me until my series books are released. So glad I bought it. The story will pull you in and you won't put the book down until you're through with it. Actually finished book in one sitting. Dan and Claire are complete opposites but in the end they bring something fresh and romantic to a fast paced storyline.

Fast paced plot and likeable characters

The fast paced plot and likeable characters, make this story a pleasure to read. The character of Dan is the essence of the typical Rice's intense alpha male that include his obsession for the protagonist Cleare. The heroin is described as a beautiful woman, with the additional bonus that she still has all her neurons working and will not loose them during the story. The love story that unfolds in Shadows at Midnight was very touching, and I felt a real connection to the characters, like I had known them already. The intrigue is well balanced with the romance part and the steamy sex scenes are not interminable and repetitive. Elizabeth Jennings aka Lisa Marie Rice is definitely one of my best discoveries so far!

strong romantic suspense thriller

Marine Daniel Weston is attracted to Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Claire Day since he first saw her at the American Embassy in Laka, Africa where both are assigned. He does not act on his attraction. A too well planned attack and bombing of the embassy leaves several occupants dead and Claire in a three month coma with situational amnesia as she has no lucid memory of the devastating incident. A year after the assault that blew away her DIA career, Claire suffers from nightmares with the only glimmer being a brown-haired man trying to protect her. When she sees her dream hero who she believes may have saved her life on TV, she flies to Washington to meet him and see if he can help her regain her memory of the attack. Dan is stunned with euphoria as he thought Claire died in the bombing. Realizing his woman is not quite what she was, he vows to assist her with her recall and to keep her safe this time, but someone wants to insure her memory stays buried even in a grave. This is a strong romantic suspense thriller that grips the audience from the onset and only tightens the hold especially when the lead couple reunites. Fast-paced throughout, mesmerized fans will root for Claire and Dan to not just make it but make it alive. As Paradise Lost can become Paradise Regained but more likely dead. Harriet Klausner

Shadows at Midnight by Elizabeth Jennings

Claire Day wanted an adventure and she found one as a spook or a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst. She finds herself working at the US Embassy in Laka, Africa on Thanksgiving Day. And things are about to go from adventurous to very dangerous. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Weston has finally made it to Laka, after briefly being introduced to Claire a year before. From the first glance he knew, absolutely knew, he had to be with her. And now, they have both made it to the same place, and they are under siege. The Red Army, a very chaotic out of control mob is flooding the streets and Dan has whisked Claire into Post One, the safest room at the Embassy. Claire has no idea Dan has been doing everything possible to be relocated to be with her. As they sit, minute after minute, hearing the horrible guns go off in the street, the tension is so strong Dan can barely believe he actually has Claire with him. Waiting out the gunfire eventually leads to a kiss. But as fate has a funny way of screwing with people's lives - that kiss is short lived. The Embassy is bombed. Claire is thrown into a coma for three months. Dan receives information that she is dead, and has to deal with his own physical recovery. Devastated, Dan leaves the Marines and opens his own private security firm in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Claire moves to Florida, where her father recently passed away. She is absolutely alone, and in bad shape. Awful nightmares, the Post Traumatic Stress is in full gear - she deals with panic attacks, nausea, is very weak and worst of all, has absolutely no memories of the bombing. When she happens to catch the name of Dan Weston on the news, his name jars her memory. She realizes he was at the Embassy at the same time she was. She is desperate to piece together those missing memories and in an act of spontaneity, books a flight to Washington DC. Fate is about to bring Claire back to Dan. But they will soon find out, the bombing may have not been a random attack, and Dan is going to have to pull out the big guns to keep Claire safe. All I have to say about Shadows at Midnight is WOW!! Okay, maybe I have a few more words to use. This is the first book I have read by Elizabeth Jennings (aka Lisa Marie Rice.) I was blown away by the dynamics between these two characters. Dan is so alpha, so lethal, so obsessed by Claire and Elizabeth Jennings writes his internal dialogue of his struggle so well. In just a few pages she takes us from a Dan who is so excited to have finally found Claire in Africa, to a heart rendering kiss, and then suddenly thrusts us to a Dan that has lost his love for a year - a devastating year. And then finally we get a Dan that has another chance - although with a Claire that is physically and mentally in a bad place. We get such a contrast with the hero and heroine. Dan is the overpowering, extremely muscular, just overwhelming presence. And Claire, post bombing is a shell of a human. Can barely eat, can barely be around peo

5 Hearts from TRS!

Elizabeth Jennings pens one of the best romantic suspense novels I've read in quite a while. Claire and her marine, Dan Weston, are a unique couple. Her handicaps don't bother him. He sees only her strengths and the heart that has kept her going through every trauma that confronts them. If this were a movie it would be full of the kind of action that would make it a hit. Without the big screen to make this better Ms. Jennings uses the power of her words to convey emotion, action, and suspense better than many do. We know the bad guy early. He and his henchmen are as nasty as any human beings could be. The reader is likely to become emotionally involved with wanting him taken down as we read the lengths he will go to in reaching his goals. The best of the Marine corps shines here as these strong men do what the best of the armed forces is trained to do. This is a great book, hard to put down once you read the first page. - Dee Dailey