Ms McKinney is one of my auto-buy authors when it comes to Romantic Suspense with an edge!  If you took the romance away, the story would stand strong on its suspense alone.  

OML Jo Bellerose was a big bag of contradictions.  Rich girl, tough girl façade, don't mess with me attitude and as many traumas to deal with as some her patients!  Beckett is her perfect foil - stubborn, determined, can see through her smokescreens and she may just be the woman to make him want to put the effort into a relationship!

They navigate the search and rescue for a non-verbal autistic girl named Aria and in the process get involved in the hunt for a serial killer terrorising Texas.  Add in mothers midst midlife breakdown, friends first pregnancies and an almighty storm/blizzard and you have all the hot buttons for an amazing story.

As the proud auntie of 5 kids with varying forms of Autism, it was great to see it being represented in this book.  It is hard to give it the in-depth treatment it needs as the varying forms of Autism are many and varied but I thought Aria was handled and depicted well.  Beckett and Jo sizzle with chemistry, even whilst Jo is sticking up every barricade, sounding alarms and giving every "go away" vibe whilst actually wanting to get closer to Beckett.  Her "dirty little secret" nearly broke my heart.  She overcame so much but, again, I felt her backstory and traumas were brilliantly handled.

Witty banter, taut and well paced story and lots of engaging characters.