Jordan Summers blends Little Red Riding Hood with Future with fair success.
War is brewing in a near-future world where murder is all but unheard of and the existence of creatures known as the Others has yet to be proven.
Gina Santiago has earned the nickname of Red because death and mayhem tend to follow her around in her job as a member of an elite tactical force charged with protecting the world.
Her current case isn’t sanctioned – she is on her own, but can’t let the death of the woman found in the desert go without finding justice for her. Her search leads her to a sleepy border town in one of the many Republics that the world is now broken into. And now it seems that Gina herself has a secret to hide – even if she doesn’t know what it really is.
Morgan Hunter can’t believe that Gina has waltzed into his town and is poking around. A member of the tactical force finding out the secret of his little town would be disastrous. And Gina is good enough to sniff out the truth. The only way to keep her from finding out their secret is to keep her close.
Red and Hunter soon find themselves fighting an almost animalistic attraction to one another. And once Gina becomes the focus of the killer they are looking for, it becomes impossible to keep their hands off one another. And the resulting sex is quite satisfying.
Secrets are revealed, and the murderer is brought down, ending the book on a satisfying note. Characters and situations are introduced that would be perfect in their own book, but I’m not sure if the author is planning a series or not. The world-building is certainly there to support more.
What wasn’t satisfying was the big reveal. Gina’s secret dovetails with Morgan’s, but the revelation seemed rushed to me. It is all explained in too few pages and the resolution comes to fast. I think the book would have been better served by being a bit longer and having Red agonize over the truth a bit more than she did.
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