Say You're Sorry, Karen Rose/614 pages (Mystery)

                                                            I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
                                                            Say You're Sorry is the story of Daisy Dawson, a recovering
                                                       alcoholic who spent many years living in hiding with her family.
                                                       She has issues with her father but has surrounded herself with
                                                       great friends, a wonderful "adoptive" family and is living her life
                                                       on her own terms when she is almost abducted by a serial killer
                                                       as she walks home from an AA meeting.  Daisy gets away,
                                                       grabbing a locket from her attackers neck.  The locket turns out
                                                       to be a link to a local hidden cult that FBI agent Gideon Reynolds
                                                       escaped from when he was 13.  Gideon becomes Daisy's body-
                                                       guard and slowly they start piecing the story together.
                                                            Our serial killer is a very twisted man.  He has been kidnapping women, abusing and discarding them for a long time.  Gideon and Daisy quickly become a team and unmasking the killer, getting justice for his victims and justice and closure for the survivors of the cult become their combined mission. 
     There were several spots in this book where the author could have ended it and it would have been a great book--but she kept going.  The book has many story lines and Karen Rose has masterfully braided them together to form a tale you can't put down!

Promise Not to Tell/Jayne Ann Krentz/325 pgs.

Virginia Troy, a Seattle gallery owner, learns of the death of an artist, Hannah Brewster, who had been a member of the same cult Virginia had been in as a child. Hannah had sent the picture of her last painting to Virginia before the cabin she lived in was torched. Virginia enlists the help of Anson Salinas's detective agency--Anson had rescued Virginia and other children from the cult years ago. This puts Virginia in contact with Cabot Sutter, a foster son of Anson's, and also in the same cult as Virginia years ago. Each of them believes that Quinton Zane, the cult master, is still alive, and that Hannah was trying to get a message to them about him. There is mystery, suspense, romance, and an open ending to the novel. It's an entertaining read, and I look forward to the last installment!