Married young, Marie Belanger has grown up these past two years in Japan while stationed with her Navy husband Pierre. But she’s glad to finally be flying home to visit her family in Maine, even if her husband must finish one last hush-hush assignment before he can join her. Having moved from the shelter of her father’s house straight into her husband’s caring arms, Marie has never really been on her own. This trip halfway around the world should prove her new adult status to her family, but niggling doubts still persist.
From the start, something doesn’t seem quite right, and her seat-mate appears nervous as well. So when she changes planes in San Francisco and happens to witness the woman’s murder, that something takes on scarred and sinister faces. Marie’s stamina is sorely tested along with her new-found faith as she struggles to outwit and outrun the evil men bent on capturing her for the secrets she unwittingly carries. Not to mention the FBI, NCIS, CIA, and the police who want to catch her first. It’s a cross-country chase that ends in the Atlantic Ocean with Marie hanging off a sixty-foot yacht.
The bait was subtle at first, but I was soon so thoroughly hooked I had to read the book in one sitting. (Well, not literally.) You won’t be able to put it down either. (392 pp.)
~ Elizabeth H. Bantz (review of Finding Marie)