This book was riveting from page one! I’m always a little apprehensive when reading a new author, but within the first couple of pages, I couldn’t put the book down! I finished it in less than a day. A lot of clues, but even more questions. Definitely left me wanting more. I kept waiting for more to happen and kept holding my breath. The perfect suspense book and I can’t wait to find out how it ends!!

I like serials and I love this character Lara. She is tough and independent. There is suspense and action. I look forward to reading the next installment.
Many thanks to Harlequin and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

What a fascinating book. I was impressed by the storyline and the characters were all well written and complex. Where there are complex storylines combined with intriguing characters the reader experience is magnified tremendously. To have a book that is well written as well as entertaining is a delight. Reading is about escaping your world and entering another one. The word building was phenomenal in this book. Here I forgot about my own life and was immersed in the world created by the author. I would recommend this

I loved the fast-paced writing in this story of an FBI agent who has just returned from a year in a safe house. Lara Grant went undercover to capture a child selling ring’s boss. It took a year of time and then another year in a safe house to make this happen but Lara was happy it was over.

Now she just wanted to get on with her life. She has been assigned to the Crisis Management Unit but before she can even report for her first day, she is called to the scene of a jumper who has asked for her by name. She manages to get him down from the ledge only to have a sniper put a bullet between his eyes. Hopefully, none of the camera crews has captured her face but Lara can’t be sure.

She and her new partner, Nick, go to the scene of a stabbing in Central Park. The victim has the same name as Lara and this makes her wonder if the crime boss is reaching out to kill her from prison.

With several more back stories of other members of the team, this is a novel done in eight short story formats. Just when you are really getting into the book, it ends and you need to get the next in the series. I would rather have the whole book to read than several short books. I will just have to wonder how the story really ends.

Sorry I was not able to read you book but it went to archive before I could get to it. Sorry once again.

I enjoyed this super short novella that introduced special agent Lara Grant. She was an interesting character, and I was caught up in the mystery. Can't wait to see what happens next!

Not a fan of stories that end abruptly and continue into the next serial

Very thrilling! A must read!

In Tough Justice: Exposed, you meet Lara Grant, while on a ledge trying to talk a jumper down. Later, you find out she's a part of a new Crisis Management Team created for the FBI. You also learn that Lara is damaged from being deep undercover into a crime organization. She's spent the last year in a safe house, but as you get to know Lara in the opening of this serial, you wonder if a year was enough time to deal with what happened, not to mention her childhood trauma.

It's easy to see, her mother's murder when she was 10 was more traumatic than she wants people to see. It has certainly impacted all of the relationships in her life.

In this novella, Carla Cassidy sets the stage for the rest of the serial, as the Crisis Management team chases down leads to tie a child's abduction and murder, a sniper killing and the murder of a jogger in Central Park together.