My Thoughts
Caitlyn goes looking for a father she hasn't seen since she was 8 years old so her mom can keep her house. Instead of him she discovers a sister she never knew about and a world of trouble her father had gotten himself into that she would have to figure out in order to keep her sister and herself safe. She enlists Dale, a man with his own kind of trouble, to help her. Somewhere along the way they fell for each other, but he holds back from her.
I loved the sisters getting to know each other and wanted more of that. I still felt like they were both holding back and desperately wanted a breakthrough for them.
I wanted that same kind of breakthrough with Caitlyn and Dale. Mostly I just wanted him to say, "Yes, I want to be with you." Just once along the way before the big finish. Instead it was "This can't happen again." And then it did. I was thinking, "Dude get in touch with those emotions quickly before she leaves town." Then...
I give Down Among the Dead Men 3 hearts!
About the Book
Caitlyn needs to find her estranged father or her mother
will be thrown out of the home she
loves, so Caitlyn ventures into the rough, tough world of
the Australian opal fields. After
rescuing a teenager from an attempted assault she learns
that the girl, Max, is her half-sister.
Their father is missing and suspected of stealing opals – an
activity that could place both Max
and Caitlyn in danger. Attempting to locate their father
without alerting the police, Caitlyn
enlists the help of Dale, a city lawyer turned lapidary,
hiding out in the town to protect his
daughter from death threats. Together they investigate, but
progress is slow until Caitlyn
stumbles upon a link between her father and organised crime,
and into an investigation by the
Federal Police.
After offering herself as the go-between in a ‘sting’,
Caitlyn realises that she’s put Dale’s life
at risk and in order to save him, she does the one thing
she’s sworn never to do. She battles
crippling claustrophobia to descend into the darkness of an
underground opal mine where her
father’s dead body is lying. With the criminals either
arrested or dead, Caitlyn accepts that
she’s found more than she went looking for. She’s fallen in
love with Dale, but there’s no
way he’d consider moving back to the city, not when a move
would expose his daughter to
danger. He doesn’t ask her to stay so she makes a new life
for herself and her sister in
Adelaide...until the death of the man threatening his family
allows Dale to confess his
feelings for her.
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