Bone Deep (Widow's Island #9)

I'm sad that the Widow's Island series is almost at its conclusion. I've loved the stories written alternately by Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. They would make an excellent TV series (hint hint to any TV people out there!

This time around we are back with Cate, former FBI agent and now a baker and bookstore owner. She loves her new life on Widow's island and has her wedding to the town's doctor, Henry to look forward to. But her former skills are going to be needed once more when Henry is kidnapped from his surgery!

Henry is not an action herp but he holds his own when he is abducted by two men to treat another's gunshot wound. He knows from the details he has been given that the patient won't make it without a hospital but they refuse to take him to one. Now he'll have to rely on his wits and medical training to keep his patient and himself alive until Cate and the Cavalry can get there.

The authors are great at interspersing past details in the series into the current book. You don't feel bogged down in fodder if you have read the other books but there is enough that if you have missed one or this is your first read in the series you can understand where you are.

Well plotted and freat paced, it takes place over only a few days. There is no spice in these stories as such but the romance is still there and I loved the total belief in the other that Henry and Cate have. The other characters; Tessa, Logan, Patience, Jane, etc all make a small appearance and help to tie the stories together.

I read an advance reader copy of this book via Netgalley and all thoughts and opinions in this review are my own.