Review: Imminent Danger – Dee J. Adams

For Abbey Washington, dancing is more than a dream, it’s a way to forget her past. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time makes her the sole witness to a stabbing and brings back horrible memories. Since the killers saw her just as clearly as she saw them, Abbey is now a loose end that needs to be tied up.

Blake St. John is working toward his PI license and hopes to find the man who hurt his brother in a kidnapping. He quit chasing his quiet co-worker, Abbey, months ago. But now that she needs protection, he takes on the role of bodyguard and all the feelings he tried to bury for her come back with a vengeance.

Abbey’s past makes it hard to trust and an attempt on her life forces her to realize that time is running out as the killers get closer. Now, she must risk it all or face a life without the one man who showed her how to love.

Series: Adrenaline Highs #5
Release Date: August 4th 2014
Publisher: Totally Irish Productions
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Joelle
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Imminent Danger is number 5 in a series, but it’s the first of the series I have read. I think Adams tries to help out those of us that are “late to the party”, however, I still felt a bit lost…For example, characters’ previous experiences were referred to, but didn’t seem quite clear & at times didn’t seem relevant. There were two story lines going on, but they didn’t seem to tie together cohesively.

Abbey and Blake are young & attractive. He is attracted to her, but she is closed-off to love and intimacy due to her past experiences. The story begins with Abbey witnessing a crime. Kim comes to visit California  & help out a friend. She meets Leo, a movie star with a playboy reputation. They happen to meet in an accountant’s office & witness suspicious activity there. That appears to be the only overlap in their stories. From there, the stories didn’t mesh well for me. Even at the very end of the book when there is the reappearance of a character from early on it just didn’t seem relevant anymore. The only thing each storyline seemed to have in common was the crooked accountant.

Perhaps if I had started the series from the beginning I would’ve enjoyed this one more. I like to have order so for me, being in the dark about the previous books affected my opinion of Imminent Danger. I’m sure fans of the series would find this worth the read.