Great book. Suspenseful, dramatic, and healing. Loved duckling nickenames.

Hope, aka Quest, is an amazing young woman who didn't allow something as major add being dear deter her from being strong and brave.

Phoenix, Ducky and Quest... Must read just for the names.

Fast paced thriller

There were lots of things I liked about this book. The main character is a 17 year-old biathlon athlete named Hope Craig. She's known to her friends as Quest and is deaf with a cochlear implant. Since I'm partially deaf I enjoyed this aspect of the story and the way the strong, independent young woman was portrayed.

She's training at a high altitude camp in Snowy Tip, Montana and she is abducted one early morning as she's training.

The story follows her mother, who is an Army Colonel, and the local sheriff as they try to find her.

I liked the side stories, many of the side characters, and the locale. What I didn't like was the ending - it felt very rushed and there were some loose ends about the antagonist that I felt weren't tied up.

If I could have given 3 1/2 stars I would have but I rounded down to 3 because of the ending.

I received this book from the Champagne Book Group through Net Galley in exchange for my unbiased review.

This action packed mystery had me reading into the wee hours of the night. Loved the characters. I couldn't put it down once I started reading, If you like a book with intrigue, secrets and who done it but with a twist and some second chance at love you'll love this one.I want to say more but don't want to ruin it but I will say Quest is a amazing young women....Can't wait to read what happens to this couple next,

Marlo is a new to me author and I look forward to reading the continuation of this series as well as her other books.

Thanks Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book and give an honest review

Seventeen-year-old Hope Craig is deaf and training hard to make the biathlon Olympic Team. But when she is kidnapped from the groomed trails and taken into a remote cabin in the mountains, she must battle more than the elements to survive.

On the hunt for her daughter's abductor, Colonel Amelia Matheson enlists the help of Richmond Morgan, a local sheriff who once hurt her. To find Hope, Sheriff Morgan and Colonel Matheson must untangle a web of secrets, including their own.

Using her wits and skills, Hope sets out to escape the mountains and save the man her mother had sent to rescue her—a man who is not who he appears to be.

Hope Craig is kidnapped while doing her biathlon training. Her mother is in the Army and is using all of her resources to find her daughter. When she walks into the local Sheriff station she’s shocked to find her old college boyfriend, Rich Morgan, is the Sheriff.

Rich and Amelia broke up when Amelia graduated. They had been dating but his rich, snobby parents didn’t like her and gave him an ultimatum – money or Amelia. He chose the money. He regretted his decision immediately but still didn’t go after Amelia. He is a different man now than he was then and has changed his thinking and basically cut ties to his parents. He’s thrilled to see Amelia again even though it’s under horrifying circumstances. He never stopped loving her and as hard as Amelia tries to deny it, she never stopped loving him either.

Rich works Hope’s case with Amelia but also another one with a local Senator. When the two cases start to intersect Rich is shocked when all the evidence in both cases are exposed. There are many secrets that are revealed and ones that will change everyone’s lives.

This was a good little mystery/romance. I liked the characters in the story, even though I never really got that close with Amelia or Rich. I did like their background story and all the secrets that were revealed, I just couldn’t get into the two of them.

Hope was a little fighter and I loved her character. I wish that we had gotten to spend more time with her during the course of the story. I also liked how the author twisted and bent the story so that three different cases were brought together into one. I actually think I would have enjoyed this better as a straight mystery without bringing the romantic element into it. I just found that part lacking.

The end was…odd, imho. Rich and Amelia were on the road to something good but it was rushed in the end and again the romance left me unsatisfied. If you’re looking for a mystery with romantic elements than this might be a good book for you, but not if you’re looking for a romance with a bit of mystery – at least in my opinion.

Rating: 3.5/3.75 out of 5

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What a terrific!.. Cold Sweat is a very well written book with a great plot. The plot has many twists and turns that kept me guessing. I was glued to this book from page one to finish. Great characters in this book, my favorite being Quest. This was my first book by this author but will be reading more. I recommend this book to all who enjoy suspense and action.

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Reviewed by Rinou
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In this romantic-suspense published 4 years ago but offered again on NetGalley this year, we have a reunion, an investigation on murders, and a kidnapping.

From the beginning, the author drops a lot of characters with not much presentation, as if we already knew them from a previous volume. I went and checked the author’s other novels and none seem to be linked or to have the same characters. So it’s even more frustrating to know so little.

On the couple side we have Amelia, Colonel in the Army, and Richmond, sheriff in a mountain little town. It’s a reunion story a bit tepid, we learn little by little why they broke up so many years ago, and I suspected quite fast the secret the heroine’s hiding. Both are strong characters who seem interesting but they’re not deepened enough for us to really grow attached to them.

Hope, alias Quest (because the hero, the heroine, and her daughter, all have a nickname used alternately with their first name, and for the adults you can add their last name and their function, just to lose the reader a bit more), who is Amelia’s daughter who was kidnapped, seems to be the most developed character. In spite of her deafness she succeeded in reaching her goal to be in the biathlon national team, and she knows how to analyze the situation in order to try to free herself. In fact she almost save herself alone in the end!

On the investigations side, we don’t really follow the one about the murders as it’s done by Amelia’s subordinates and she focuses on her daughter’s disappearance (which is understandable). Of course both investigations will intertwine, but the end is too rushed and I didn’t understand why the culprit does what he does at the end.

So it’s a romantic-suspense which has potential but is lacking on the romance side as on the suspense side. It would have deserved to be reworked on to develop the characters instead of being offered identically.