Name: Sworn to Protect
ISBN: 9780451415004

Jo Davis

When he becomes the legal guardian of his late best friend's son, a bitter, angry 16-year-old with a dangerous secret, Detective Shane Ford, Sugarland's favorite cop, goes head-to-head with Juvenile Officer Daisy Callahan, who is determined to protect the teen's best interests. Original.

A Sugarland Blue Novel

Sworn to Protect

Lynn Braden

Detective Shane Ford's best friend, NFL star Brad Cooper, has just died and Shane finds himself caring for his sixteen year old son, Drew. At the same time, he is trying to make up for his behavior earlier in the year when he pushed Juvenile Officer Daisy Callahan out of his life. Daisy is understandably fearful of giving Shane another chance to hurt her. In the meantime, Drew starts at his new school and makes friends with a boy who leads him into trouble: skipping school, vandalism, smoking, and spying on the local drug dealer who happens to be his new friend's father. When Drew witnesses a murder, Shane must step in before his godson gets himself killed.
Sworn to Protect doesn't deliver much in the way of romantic suspense. The middle of the book is very slow, missing the opportunity to develop the suspense and the romance. Even though Daisy seems reluctant to reconnect with Shane, she ignores her fears completely to jump back into a relationship with him. Drew's situation doesn't amp up the suspense until almost the end of the book. The little conflict that there is in the story is very quickly solved. Overall, a disappointing miss.

Sworn to Protect A Sugarland Blue Novel

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