(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

For one woman, the dark is a dangerous place to be, and it's the one place she cannot escape.
Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran is no stranger to darkness. She was blinded in a horrific car accident eight years ago that also took the life of her three-year-old niece. She knows she was only partially to blame, but that doesn't make the loss any easier to bear. She's learned to get by, but there are still painful memories. When she is almost run down by a speeding car on the way home from work, Cadence at first thinks that she is the victim of road rage or a bad driver. But that's not the case. In fact, she is the only witness to the murder of her elderly neighbor, and now the killer believes that she's seen the getaway car. Louise Ure paints the glare of a Southwestern summer with the brush of a blind woman's darkness in this novel of jeopardy and courage…and the fine line between them—as Cadence fights to stop a killer she can't see.

I am giving this three stars simply for Cadence. She is a blind auto mechanic (gotta be some kind of award for that!) who "witnesses" a murder and finds the killers after her. Learning about the way she has adapted to her lack of vision was amazing. Her reliance on her other senses is fantastic...

This novel...not so much.

I think the problem, for me, was that the plot was too far-fetched. It was slow and meandering, never really getting to any pace that "thriller" would be an appropriate tag. The ending was unbelievable (in a bad way.)

It is a shame, too, as the basis was there for a really cracking story but was let down by the execution.


Paul
ARH