Forgotten Sins

December 16, 2013
After two months of marriage, Josie Dean’s husband, Shane, abandoned her, leaving her to take refuge in her accounting career. Two years later, an amnesiac and bloody Shane reappears, with little memory of his past life but with an unwavering certainty that he still wants Josie and must protect “his woman.” Josie wants him to finalize their divorce, but her determination to move on with her life is at war both with Shane and her own desires. As Shane puzzles out his past, he realizes he’s more of a deadly weapon than a man, with superhuman strength, hearing, and expertise in killing. Fans of romantic suspense will enjoy the twists and reversals that Zanetti (the Dark Protector series) puts her protagonists through, and there’s a sly subversion of the tiresome trope of the helpless little woman and the brawny protective man as, time and again, Josie proves more than capable of taking care of herself. Agent: Caitlin Blasdell, Liza Dawson Associates.

January 1, 2014
Zanetti's latest roller-coaster romance begins when accountant Josie Dean gets a phone call informing her that her husband, a career soldier who had been missing for two years, is in the hospital with amnesia. Having started divorce proceedings, Josie isn't sure she wants to see Shane, but she visits him anyway and learns that he was mugged by three men, two of whom he killed. Then, when she's attacked after taking her husband home, they start to wonder who the target really is. Is it Shane with his murky background and lost memories? Or since Josie has found discrepancies in the ledgers she took over from an accountant in drug rehab, could someone want her eliminated? As the threats shift back and forth between them, Shane's memories resurface, only to put them more in peril. Zanetti really gets readers' adrenalin pumping as she launches a new romantic suspense series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)