Silent Run

Full of fear, Sarah Tucker woke up in a hospital room with no memories. As well, she has a baby she can't remember, who is missing. As she lies there trying to remember anything, an angry man barges in. He is her missing child's father and he wants his daughter back. After seven long months, Jake Sanders finally finds Sarah, the woman who left him without a word, taking their child with her. Now, he needs her to remember, so that he can find out where his daughter is and reclaim her. He just has to keep his feelings from clouding his judgment. Silent Run grips you from the first paragraph. Ms. Freethy continuously throws in twists and turns that keep the plot energetic and pulsing. The reader wants to take both Jake and Sarah and shake them to make them realize how their actions are affecting the other. Jake and Sarah's personal quirks make for interesting extra suspense. At the end you hope for a happily-ever-after but you aren't sure it will come, until it does. Emma reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Since the very first word to the very last this book will hook you to it. You won't be able to close it till you finish it. You'll want to know what will happen in the next page and you won't have any inkling of the end till the end. You'll learn about friendship, love and family. So for me this book deserves SIX stars. P.S. If you like this kind of thrillers read: Remember Me by Sharon Sala

Barbara Freethy has created another entertaining and suspenseful book in Silent Run. Sarah Tucker is a woman on the run when she gets into a car accident which she is lucky to have survived. She wakes up in a hospital bed as a Jane Doe with no memory of who she is. She had no identification on her and the police circulate her photo on the news with hope of someone she knows coming forth to identify her. Someone does come forth and his name is Jake Sanders. He is the one who identifies her as Sarah Tucker, his former girlfriend and mother to his daughter, Caityln. It seems that they were together for two years and were living together. One day while he is out of town, she disappears with their daughter. Since that day seven months ago, Jake has been looking for her and their daughter. The problem is that she doesn't have Caitlyn with her and doesn't remember where she could be. Was she in the car with Sarah when it crashed? Jake is angry and bitter at Sarah and his feeling is understandable. Sarah was the love of his life and who he wanted to marry as well as the mother to their child. One day she ups and disappears with their daughter and he never hears from her again. His primary objective is to find his daughter and the only way to do that is to work with Sarah. Jake realizes soon afterward that someone is truly after Sarah and is trying to kill her. The questions are many and of course the answers are few since Sarah can't remember any of it. She has flashes of memory but can't place them or understand what they mean to her. She has obviously been on the run from someone but for how long and why? The journey to find the answers to her past and find her daughter keep the reader in suspense to the very end. Jake and Sarah are a believeable couple who had been obviously been in love at one point and maybe still are. Sarah can't remember their life together let alone the love that they shared and Jake's love is mixed in with all the bitterness and anger of her leaving with their daughter. Will they find out all the answers to Sarah's past? Will they find their daughter, Caitlyn? Will they have a future together? You will have to read this exciting and suspenseful book to find out. Don't miss the follow up to this book, Silent Fall, which I am currently reading.

I have never read anything by this author before but I thought the plot sounded interesting so I decided to give it a try. I won't go into details since others have already done so. It takes a very special book for me to not only write a review but to also give it 5 stars!! This is one of them. I stayed up until 1 am reading this book. I finally had to put it down so that I could get some sleep because I have to go to work at 7 am. I have about 1/3 of the book left to read and I can't wait to get home tonight to finish it. Why is she running? Who got shot? Who has the baby? I can't wait to find out!!

Following a nasty car crash, a woman is rushed to St. Mary's Hospital in Santa Barbara County suffering a traumatic injury to her brain. To her shock she cannot remember who she is. Angry Jake Sanders arrives claiming Jane Doe is his lover Sarah Tucker, who vanished with their daughter Caitlyn. However, Sarah suffers amnesia and the emergency rescuers insist no baby was in the car or at the accident scene. Although barely talking to one another, Jake and Sarah team up in a frantic hunt for Caitlyn. However, Jake who thought he knew Sarah when they were together revises his opinion when he concludes she was on the lam even when they lived together. When an unknown adversary tries to kill Sarah, Jake knows that Caitlyn is in jeopardy because of her mother's unknown past. This is a one sitting suspense thriller from the moment that Jane Doe awakens in the hospital to the final altercation. The romantic subplot enhances the desperate search as she knows she has lived a life of lies but cannot recall them and he feels betrayed by the woman he loves, who might not exist. As they continue their SILENT RUN, readers slowly learn what Sarah forgot. Barbara Freethy provides a gripping romantic suspense. Harriet Klausner