Review: Terri Blackstock’s “Twisted Innocence” & Nook Giveaway

Terri Blackstock is absolutely one of my all-time favorite, Christian suspense authors. I have loved every book that I have read by her. I especially loved her Restoration series.

Mrs. Blackstock is a master at building a story with complex characters that seem like real people, your neighbors, friends, and doctors. She writes community into every novel.

Her latest, book Twisted Innocence lives up to her great craftmanship.  I just loved this story which brought laughter, fright, and tears (sometimes all on the same page).  I wish I had started with other books in the series. This is the third one.  The fact that I could pick up the book in a series and understand and follow the plot easily speaks to Mrs. Blackstock’s writing expertise.

She moves us seamlessly from scene to scene and action to action in this story which opens with Holly picking up an unusual couple in her cab who then beat and mug her.   Holly was a partying teenager and 20-something until life real-life consequences caught up with her. A bad one-night stand leads to her becoming a single mom who has to work two jobs as a cabbie and private investigator just to make ends meet. The father, Creed, is a drug dealer and partier, the last person Holly would want involved in her and her daughter’s life.

When she learns that he is implicated in a murder, she sets out to capture him herself. Things don’t work out how she envisioned, however. Instead of having him put in jail and thus permanently out of her life; Creed manages to take her and her baby hostage. Then, he flees with them, running from both the police and outlaws who want him dead. He claims he innocent and is being framed by a man named, Leonard Miller. Holly knows that name well because Miller has murdered several of her own family members. Can her family find her before it is too late?

Terri Blackstock has sold over six million books worldwide and is a New York Times bestselling author. She is the award-winning author of “Intervention,” “Vicious Cycle,” and “Downfall,” as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, Restoration, and Moonlighters.

Thanks to Litfuse Publicity Group for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

What Litfuse shared about the book:

In Terri Blackstock’s third and final book in her Moonlighters series, Twisted Innocence, readers are in for a story of suspense and redemption. Dangers old and new threaten Holly and her baby, and lives are demanded as sacrifices for love. Through a complex web of mistakes and regret, redemption is the one hope Holly has left to hold on to.

Celebrate the series’ final release by entering Terri’s Nook giveaway!

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A Nook GlowLight
• The entire Moonlighters series

Enter today by clicking the icon below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on March 8th. Winner will be announced March 9th on the Litfuse blog.

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