Retribution

by Regina Smeltzer

Pelican Book Group



Harbourlight Books



Christian, Mystery & Thrillers

Pub Date 01 Jun 2016

I was given a copy of Retribution through the publisher and their partnership with Netgalley in exchange for my honest review which is as follows:

Lillian had once been a trial attorney free to do what she pleased. But two years ago she lost her husband and daughter in a fire everyone thought she had started. Soon she decides it's time to move away, when she is given a job opportunity away from home she takes it.

Soon Lillian finds herself being introduced to her new home with a traffic ticket.

Roger threatens to evict a tenant and when he does that the tenant threatens Lillian, someone he is starting to fall for.

Blood coated hands.

Lillian was followed to her new home by someone from her old life, someone determined to see that she was punished.

Lillian turns to Roger for protection but will trusting him cost her everything once more?

I give Retribution five out of five stars

Happy Reading...

This is an impressive suspense novel in how it keeps you guessing with all the twists and turns and how you guess wrong as to what is wrong and that is the sign of an incredibly impressive book this is my friends. This is heartbreaking because Lillian was accused of killing her husband and daughter in a arson/murder but they didn't charge her - she was innocent but people already made up their mind up and charged her guilty. All her so called friends turned their backs and talked about her. So when she got offered a job somewhere else half-way across the country she jumps on it - but what she didn't know someone followed her - that person did something to her that you will not believe - I could not believe what they did and who it was. Though she was in danger there was one person she could rely on - Roger - and then most important of all GOD - how can you lose - well I am still in shock now when I think about it - now that is how good the book is - you think about it even when you are done - so, What happens to Lillian? What happens to Roger now that he is helping Roger and there is someone trying to get to Lillian? Will Lillian ever get her life back? Will Lillian make it to the end of the book? What will happen between Lillian and Roger OR is it just a serious friendship? There is one thing that I am really disappointed in.............the book ended:)

Retribution By Regina Smeltzer is a mystery and thriller read.
Lillian Hunter’s life is destroyed when she’s implicated in setting the fire which killed her husband and daughter. Seeking peace and restoration, she pulls the pieces of her shattered life together and accepts a position at a college in another state. Surrounded by a loving family that has adopted her as their own, Lillian struggles with new life, new love…and new danger. Fires are being set in which she is once again implicated. Doubting her own sanity, Lillian takes steps to ensure she isn’t setting the fires. But if it isn’t her, who is it? And why, after she’s moved halfway across the country, have they followed her? A day of reckoning is coming as Lillian seeks to exonerate herself and claim retribution for the destruction of her life. Will she discover the truth before her new life is consumed by the flames?
This was a really enjoyable read with great characters. Although slow in places I did read it all. 4*. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book from netgalley.