Unspeakable

Written by Elisabeth Naughton

Narrated by Amy Landon

In this electrifying novel from New York Times bestselling author Elisabeth Naughton, love can be a risk when it’s explored in such dark places…

All his siblings have moved on from their troubling pasts, but Rusty McClane can’t leave his behind. Not even when his freedom is in jeopardy.

Legal investigator Harper Blake can sense a bad boy. She’s drawn to them—like she is to her mysterious and brooding new client. The police believe that Rusty is involved with the case of a missing underage girl. Harper’s job is to find evidence to defend him. But is her sexy suspect a predator…or something else?

If Rusty is guilty of anything, it’s of stirring something primitive in Harper. The closer they get, the harder it is to believe the worst of him.

But in an underworld filled with sex trafficking, kidnapping, and murder, Harper will need to be cautious about whom she trusts. Because Rusty isn’t the only one with secrets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Nov 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781978635319

Elisabeth Naughton

Before topping multiple bestseller lists—including those of the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal—Elisabeth Naughton taught middle-school science. A voracious reader, she soon discovered she had a knack for creating stories with a chemistry of their own. The spark turned into a flame, and Naughton now writes full-time. Her books have been nominated for some of the industry’s most prestigious awards, such as the RITA and Golden Heart Awards from Romance Writers of America, the Australian Romance Readers Award, and the Golden Leaf Award. When not dreaming up new stories, Naughton can be found spending time with her husband and three children in their western Oregon home. Unspeakable is the third book in her Deadly Secrets series, following Protected, Gone, and Repressed, which was a 2017 RITA winner in romantic suspense. Learn more about Elisabeth at www.ElisabethNaughton.com.

Reviews for Unspeakable

[mazda502001 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

IMHO this author is one of the best in horror fiction. His books are nightmarish, shocking and scary.Back Cover Blurb:Holly Summers is deaf, but she 'hears' thanks to her immense talent for lip-reading. A child welfare officer, Holly moonlights for the Portland, Oregon, police, using her unique gift to aid in criminal investigations - including one into the case of a recent string of women who have vanished without a trace.Witnessing unimaginable evil in the abuse cases she handles, Holly fights every day to salvage broken young lives. But her good works spark plenty of enemies; someone has targeted this avenging angel with a supernatural vow to harm her. And the terror begins when Holly's young daughter disappears.Fending off the shadows of an unearthly predator and the very real threats facing a woman in a man's world, Holly must listen to her deepest instincts for survival - to save the one person for whom she is living.

[sonicquack · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Of late Masterton is turning out light reads, both in terms of horror and in genre. There are still American Indian references, yet the usual bone-chilling terror is not present. This said however, Unspeakable does not follow any expected paths; it's unpredictable, wily and at times quite shocking. When the central protagonist of the tale is deaf, you should know that Masterton is using that a vehicle to create scenarios that will unnerve you, and he does this, not consistently, but enough to remind you that he has the book has the potential to be nasty if it needed to be. That is the crux. Unspeakable is not a horror book, yet a dark and unsettling tale of the horror in our world, the danger we pose to our children , and with only a faint supernatural background. It'll grab your interest, and fill a few hours (it's only a short book) and is a worthy addition to your Masterton library, but it's not strictly horror.

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Holly Summers is deaf but she lipreads very well so really her deafness is not an obstacle. She works as a child welfare officer and sometimes moonlights for the Police in Portland to help with criminal investigations. She's also a single mother trying to raise her child and work out how much she could give to another person if she dated them.This is a dual story about a group of successful missing women and some of Holly's cases that are causing her a lot of grief. The story rattles along at a breakneck speed but I felt cheated at the end.