Smooth Lies by Sara Thacker
The Wild Rose Press
Contemporary Romance, Suspense
Full length, Spicy
Review by Camellia

After being dumped and left for dead in the Black Sea, Jake Henley is out to settle the score with his commanding officer and to save Sophia. She’s in jeopardy because of his job. He’ll stop at nothing to save her.

Sophia knows her secret life is to blame, but telling Jake about her job would only endanger him more. Can they escape the enemy by working together, or will the lies their marriage was founded on get in their way?

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Smooth Lies keeps the reader’s adrenaline pumping from the onset. Jake’s secret black ops job takes him to the brink of death at the time when he knows Sophia is at risk because of him. Stretched to the limit of his endurance, he strives to rescue her, even though his identity has been stolen and he’s been reported dead.

Meantime, Sophia, having been tortured and badly hurt, finds herself drugged and a captive. Her amnesia state leaves her unsure of what is truth and what is a lie until she overhears a conversation of her capturers. She knows she has to escape if she wants to live. Hers is a hair-raising experience.

As Sara Thacker weaves this exciting story of a race for life, the reader encounters a convenient coincidence or two but these are not enough to keep one from wanting to stay close to Jake and Sophia as they run for their lives in the mountains of Virginia.

The need to stay alive and to find a way to build a lasting marriage drains Jake and Sophia, both physically and emotionally, and propels the story along. When we think all is lost, a saved-by-the-skin-of-their-teeth happens and we finally have the happy-ever-after that we love. Smooth Lies is a page-turner.