Deadly Target, wow. Another pulse-pounding success from Elizabeth Goddard.

Erin Larson is a criminal psychologist with big dreams. Everything comes to a screeching halt when she’s targeted during a boating trip. To make things worse, she then learns her mother has failed in an attempted suicide bid. She rushes back to Montana to care for her and focus on her cold case podcast.

Detective Nathan Campbell is trying to reconnect with his father, who’s trying to tell Nathan about a dangerous case when a single shot upends their lives. With his dad unable to help, Nathan needs Erin’s assistance to solve the mystery before they both end up dead. But can the exes handle working together?

What follows, is a rollercoaster of unpredictable twists and turns, then a shocker of a revelation. I respect this author’s ability to make readers care about characters very quickly, because I became invested in both by the end of the first two chapters.

On top of that, the way both characters are made vulnerable to each other and also events beyond their control, and it was fun to see how skillfuly the emotional dynamics played out.

If you like high stakes romantic suspense novels, this is highly recommended.