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    Blood Stains

    By Sharon Sala

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    At the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking newsas a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own.

    Maria remembers none of that. But now she's determined to flush her mother's killer out of hiding and discover the identity of her birth father. She heads to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she meets Detective Bodie Scott.

    Empathizing with this beautiful woman looking to find out who she really is, he opens the decades-old case file. Their investigation leads them down a dangerous path, where no one is what they seem. Where a father does not want to be found. And a murderer has "like mother, like daughter" in mind for Maria.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9781426884306
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    Blood Stains
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    Sharon Sala

    With over fifty books in print, award-winning author Sharon Sala, who also writes as Dinah McCall, still has to remind herself from time to time that this isn't a dream. She learned to read at the age of four and has had her nose in a book ever since. Her introduction into romance came at an early age through the stories of Zane Gray, Grace Livingston Hill and Emily Loring. Her pride in contributing to the genre is echoed by the letters of her fans. She's a four-time RITA finalist, Winner of the Janet Dailey Award, three-time Career Achievement winner from Romantic Times magazine, four-time winner of the National Reader's Choice Award and five-time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer's Award of Excellence, as well as numerous other industry awards. Her books are regularly on bestseller lists, such as the New York Times extended list, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Waldenbooks mass market, and many others. She claims that, for her, learning to read was a matter of evolution, but learning to write and then being published was a revolution. It changed her life, her world and her fate.

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    • 4/5
      This book is different in that we know who the killer is early on and it's just a matter of waiting for the story to play out to find out how/if he'll be caught. Bodie and Maria's relationship develops very quickly, which is typical of romance novels, but I didn't find it to be unbelievable. The book is part of a three-book series in which Maria's two "sisters" search for the truth about their biological parents. An overall good book.
    • 4/5
      This is my second Sharon Sala novel and I like this one as much as the first one I read. It seems I've found a new author! Maria Slade's father has just died and has revealed a secret that has changed her life. She goes to Tulsa, Oklahoma to rediscover a past she never knew she had - great characters and a great story.
    • 5/5
      Check out my other listens at Eargasms Audiobook Reviews

      A great suspense and sweet romance.

      Maria is an independent gal who doesn't need saving. But she is smart enough to accept the help of a good cop! She is just sassy enough to attract Bodie right away.

      Bodie is one of those alpha protective types who jumps feet first into love. He is not hiding from his feeling no matter how quickly they come. And he is not looking to lat Marie back-down either.

      The mystery angle is predictable but really interesting. Nicely paced story telling that keeps you on the edge most of the book.

      This first book in the trilogy takes more time setting up the story arc that flows through all the books.

      There is a slight religious tone because of the girls father having being a Preacher. But it isn't preachy or zealous.

      The steam is light. Only one really hot and heavy scene that barely gets erotic. But that is mainstream for you! Still doesn't really distract from the great story.

      I listened to the audiobook, Gail Hendricks is a terrific narrator. She does great voices and brings the story to life in an enchanting manner. Two happy ears here!!

      Can't wait to read the next sister's story!!
    • 5/5
      After their father’s funeral they buried him near dear Momma’s grave. Maria,Savannah and Holly expected to inherit the ranch in Montana. What they did not expect was the video Andrew Slade left for the three of them. In it, the trio learned that not only were the parents they had known not their actual parents,but they had never officially been adopted and that they were not sisters
      either!
      What they just learned was made clearer by the diary their father kept for each of them detailing the reasons each child had been left with him and who their real parents had been. He had been a travelling preacher in a past life and accumulated the girls from parents who, for some reason or another, had fallen upon such difficult times that is was wiser to separate themselves from
      their child than to put that child’s life in danger.
      Maria’s mother had been a hooker who was murdered when the little girl was only four. The child witnessed the killing, but had been removed from the scene of the crime by do-gooder neighbors and blocked out all memory of that awful day. Now with her father’s death she took off to find out more about her mother only to discover that the murder had never been solved. After arriving in Tulsa, OK she began ferreting into her mother’s past and that past caught up with her sooner than she expected.
      When her life is threatened and she ends up in hospital after a bomb planted under her car by a thug-for-hire explodes, the Tulsa police department takes what appeared to be an unsolved cold-case a little more seriously. What Maria did not count on was falling in love with Bodie Scott, the handsome cowboy homicide detective.
      Sala treats us to romantic mystery al a Nora Roberts style as a challenge to be the headliner in her genre. “Blood Stains” evoked the right number of chuckles, tears and edge of your seat thrills to make this a major hit.
    • 4/5
      Maria Slade receives shocking news at the reading of her father's will, he wasn't in fact her father, he had rescued her when her mother had been murdered in front of her. She heads back to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she enlists the help of Detective Bodie Scott. The investigation starts but bodies start piling up as well, it looks like the murderer is still trying to keep his secrets.Interesting with some rather good characters who seem to spark well off each other, there was just a certain something that didn't seem to work as well as it could and while I did feel worried for the characters it wasn't as suspense filled as I quite like in a story.

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