CAUGHT - Jami Alden
The Gemini Men, Book 1
Kensington Brava
ISBN-10: 0-7582-2546-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-2546-7
October 2008
Romantic Suspense

Palo Alto, California - Present Day

When seventeen year old Kara Kramer goes missing, her father calls in Ethan Taggart of Gemini Securities while his ex-wife calls in Toni Crawford, the private investigator who was able to prove that her now ex-husband was cheating and hiding money from her. Though the police believe that Kara is a typical teenager who probably snuck out of the house and didn’t get back early enough, Toni’s instincts are telling her that something else is going on. She won’t rest easy until she’s talked to Kara herself and intends to continue investigating. She doesn’t need the too handsome, too charming, too full of himself Ethan Taggart along to keep her company, but Mrs. Kramer doesn’t trust her husband to keep her informed, so Toni agrees to keep tabs on Ethan.

Prickly women who all but admit to being computer nerds, are definitely not Ethan’s type, but there is something about Toni that attracts him more than any woman he’s ever met. When his client insists that he keep an eye on Toni while looking for Kara, Ethan figures it’s no hardship. As Toni and Ethan uncover the secrets that Kara was keeping from her family, they also find out things about each other, and the mutual interest between them explodes into passion. But there is a seventeen year-old girl who is in more trouble than any of them could have imagined, and Toni and Ethan are the only ones working to save her.

First up in The Gemini Men series, CAUGHT introduces readers to Ethan Taggart and his brothers, Derek and Danny, co-owners of Gemini Securities. Though they grew up fairly wealthy, each of the men went into the military and, now retired from their respective posts, they’ve started Gemini. While all of the brothers are good-looking, Ethan’s charm and charisma have women flocking to him. So when he finds himself chasing Toni, he’s a little surprised. From both personal experience and the work she does proving to her clients that, yes, their husbands are cheating on them, Toni doesn’t believe that men can be faithful. A man who, at their first meeting, flirts with her while wearing another woman’s lipstick on his earlobe, does not seem a likely candidate to change her mind. Then why is it so hard to resist him?

Kara’s parents insist that she is a good girl, but everything Toni and Ethan learn is showing a different side to the girl – a side that none of them had expected and may very well have led her into danger. The story is evenly balanced between the romance brewing between Toni and Ethan, their search for Kara, and the personal ghosts from both of their pasts.

CAUGHT is an engaging tale that grabs readers right from the beginning and will keep them enthralled to the very end. I highly recommend this book, and can’t wait for Derek's and Danny’s stories.

Jennifer Bishop