The Salt Maiden

Colleen Thompson’s THE SALT MAIDEN is a romantic suspense filled with surprising revelations, shocking twists and turns and deep dark secrets someone is willing to kill to keep.

Buried in the desert of Devil’s Claw, mummified by salt, lays the body of a woman with a secret, a secret someone will kill to keep undiscovered. It is the last place Dana Vanover ever thought she would be searching for her missing sister. Even with the help of the intriguing Sheriff Jay Eversole, Dana is pushed to her limits as suspicion, snakes and endless sands and heat, attempt to derail her investigation. With a child’s life in the balance though, Dana and Jay will do whatever it takes to uncover THE SALT MAIDEN.

Colleen Thompson’s THE SALT MAIDEN goes to show that even in the most dismal of settings and the most trying of times, when the human heart is involved, no obstacle is too great. Dana Vanover, the heroine in this story, is one feisty and determined woman on a mission. Even when readers will want to scream at her to give up and go home, it comes as no surprise that Dana simply digs her heels in and becomes even more determined to find her missing sister and in turn try to find a way to save her recently found, severely sick niece. And who better to team her up with than the strong and oh so capable, and incidentally available, town Sheriff.

Fast paced, exciting and filled with dark secrets and hidden truths, Colleen Thompson’s THE SALT MAIDEN is a mystery readers will simply not be able to put down.

November 2007