The Cipher

There are some days that deserved to be downed at birth….

Customs Agent Lucy Trenton just wasn’t having a good day or perhaps that might be a good week. It starts off when she is the senior officer available during a salvage operation and goes from bad to worse when she is attached by a cipher. And now she is being blackmailed about her secret and highly illegal cache of ciphers. If it wasn’t for the fact that her actions would reflect badly on the royal family, she would just let the blackmailer tell all….

Any book that starts of with one of the best opening lines that this reviewer has ever come across has to be good. And THE CIPHER by Diana Pharoh Francis doesn’t disappoint by any means. Lucy Trenton is one of those heroines that readers will really relate too. Not too pretty and certainly not to rich, she is just trying to enjoy her life when someone comes across her secrets and now Lucy has her hands full trying to protect her family and friends, let alone herself.

Fast paced from the beginning, this reader was swept away in the world of Crosspointe where dangerous majick courses thru the black water of the Inland Seas. The new majicks and characters were totally fascinating and well worth reading. The pacing towards the end of the book however felt forced, almost as though the author wanted to hurry the ending up. Other then that, THE CIPHER is well worth reading. Be sure to get your copy today.

April 2008