Merciless

Secrets, miscommunication, and more Long, Tall Texans…

In Diana Palmer’s latest, FBI agent Jon Blackhawk has an interfering mother trying to marry him off, an extremely conservative but sassy single mother as his paralegal (who’s keeping secrets), and a bungling criminal threatening revenge. He’s more afraid of his mother’s match-making than the criminal, but things change when Jon is shot in the back and his paralegal, Joceline Perry, and her son are threatened. Joceline made a tough decision when she realized she was pregnant but vowed she’d live with the consequences. She’s managed for years to keep her home life and work totally separate, until the threat to Jon and herself brings both parts of her life crashing back together. Palmer’s work is always filled with quirky characters, witty banter, and a good dose of real-life questions about morality and the world today. This is a direct follow-up to Dangerous featuring Jon’s brother, McKuen Kilraven.