Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com

With Rook, Mac broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in law enforcement, but she knows he isn't up from Washington, D.C., to set things straight between them. He's on a case.

As the hunt for the mysterious attacker continues, the case takes an unexpected turn when Mac and Rook return to Washington and find Bernadette's ex-husband, a powerful attorney, shot to death. Then Bernadette disappears, and Mac and Rook realize the stakes are higher than either had imagined, and a master criminal with nothing left to lose is prepared to gamble everything.

Average Customer Rating:

A WONDERFUL FAST-PACED NOVEL	Customer Rating:
I loved this book. Abandon is a wonderful story with character's I truly cared about. It was a fast-paced thrill ride right to the end. In fact, I liked these character's so much, I'd like to read another book about them. What happens next?

How about No Stars?

Customer Rating:

I started this book about ten days ago. When I had an opportunity to sit and read, I found myself finding something else to do instead. Being a mystery fan, this should have been my first clue. Today I was determined to finish this book and I fell asleep, twice. Okay, I'm done. This is not a thriller. The mystery to me is that is ever got published in the first place. I even looked to see the copyright date to see if Carla Neggers wrote this book when she was fifteen years old. I am throwing the book away, unfinished. I will not waste anymore time on it. Please don't waste your time, there are better books out there. Abandon this book before you end up as frustrated as I was while reading this uninteresting, confusing, lackluster novel.

exciting police procedural romantic suspense

Customer Rating:

The knife slasher surprised rookie Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart when he lunged at her. She is fortunate to have survived. However, she believes the intended target is her close friend, federal Judge Bernadette Peacham. She vows to keep Bernadette safe while catching the escaped "pale-eyes" killer. Mackenzie is assigned to work with FBI Agent Andrew Rook, the last person she wants to be teamed up with. They had a hot three week fling until Rook checkmated her by abruptly dumping her. Still this is no time to stand on ceremony as Mackenzie knows the first object is keeping Bernadette safe though she berates herself for still wanting the rat who abandoned ship just when it looked like they might have something passionately perfect. This exciting police procedural romantic suspense takes about a little more than a third of the novel before the story line accelerates into the cat and mouse war between the two Feds and Pale-Eyes, but once it does, readers will not ABANDON the tale until the book is finished. Mac is a terrific protagonist while Rook has some commitment issues, but is there once his beloved is under attack. She has doubts that he will remain there as he lacks staying power. Though starting slowly and not the author's best work, fans will still enjoy Carla Neggers' fine thriller. Harriet Klausner

Loved it!	Customer Rating:
I loved this book. Mackenzie Stewart defied expectations to became a federal agent, and on her first weeks on the job she fends off what appears to be a madman with a knife. Mackenzie has a great sense of humor. She gets involved with Andrew Rook, an FBI agent who's after an informant who's turned up missing. Great story!

Flimsy, weak storyline.

Customer Rating:

This book was horrible. I have to agree with one of the other reviewers except (minor point) that MacKenzie is a US Marshal, not a fellow FBI agent. That notwithstanding, it's as if 47 different people were given an outline and one chapter to write and then they put them all together. Only they didn't go together. The plot was so thin and the characters never finished a conversation (question asked; question not answered). I usually finish a book this size in 2-3 hours; however, it took me a week to get to page 200 and then I was so aggravated by the flimsy storyline that I just skipped to the last 2 paragraphs and skimmed the ending. Don't waste your money.