Say Your Goodbyes

By Linda Ladd

SAY YOU’RE DREAMING

When a scream wakes Will Novak in the middle of the night, at first he puts it down to the nightmares. He's alone on a sailboat in the Caribbean, miles from land. And his demons never leave him.

SAY YOUR PRAYERS

The screams are real, though, coming from another boat just a rifle’s night scope away. It only takes seconds for Novak to witness one murder and stop another. But with the killer on the run and a beautiful stranger dripping on his deck, Novak has gotten himself into a new kind of deep water.

BUT DON’T SAY YOUR NAME

The young woman he saved says she doesn't know who she is. But someone does, and they're burning fuel and cash to chase Novak and his new acquaintance from one island to the next, across dangerous seas and right into the wilds of the Yucatan jungle. If either of them is going to live, Novak is going to need answers, fast—and he's guessing he won't like what he finds out . . .

Praise for Linda Ladd’s Claire Morgan Thrillers

“One of the most creepy, crawly, and compelling psychological thrillers ever.” —Fresh Fiction

“Chilling, compelling suspense…be prepared to lose sleep!” —Eileen Dryer on Head to Head

“Exciting, thrill-a-minute!” —Midwest Book Review on Dark Places

“Plenty of suspense and surprises.” —Publishers Weekly on Dark Places

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781601838582

Linda Ladd

Since she was a little girl, Linda Ladd has always been a romantic, loving nothing better than to lose herself completely in the faraway times and places of great novelists such as Jane Austen, Margaret Mitchell, and the Brontë sisters. Little did she dream that someday she would be transporting legions of her own fans into exciting love stories, where darkly handsome heroes are swept away with beautiful, high‑spirited heroines. Millions have enjoyed her novels since her first historical romance, Wildstar, hit the shelves in 1984. Within a year, she had signed multiple‑book contracts with two different publishers and resigned from her teaching position in order to write full time. Since then, she has penned fourteen bestselling historical novels, which have been acclaimed by readers and booksellers alike. An award‑winning author with a loyal following all over the world, her primary love remains with her family. Ladd recently celebrated her silver wedding anniversary with husband, Bill, and the magic between them still lingers, as he remains the inspiration for all her heroes. She enjoys a lakefront home in southern Missouri, and her daughter Laurel and son Bill have gone away to college. When not hard at work on her latest novel, her two dogs (Pete and Sampras) and two cats (Tigger and Tounces) keep her company, as well as Romeo and Juliet, a pair of snow‑white swans who glide gracefully past her gazebo overlooking Misty Lake.

Reviews for Say Your Goodbyes

[cathygeha · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Say Your Goodbyes by Linda LaddWill Novak Thriller #2More talkative than Reacher but with similarities the hero of this book, Will Novak, is about a man who has lost the woman he loves and his children, has been a policeman and a SEAL, works as a private detective for Claire (from the series this broke off from) and is wealthy, ruthless and haunted by things in his past. While out on the sea regrouping and mourning he hears a scream. He saves a girl but does not trust her. He is captured by pirates but gets away. He eludes a scalping assassin known as the “Mayan”. He meets with a drug lord. He reaches out to a CIA friend he knows in South America. He meets with a previous lover. And that is not all that happens by a long shot. He eventually figures out that his gut was right to be suspicious of just about everything and everyone because what has been said and done and seemed to be maybe true was not true at all. There are twists and turns, violence, torture, attempted rape, friends to help out and friends who are hurt, a child saved and some bad guys that meet their maker. This is a standalone book and I am not sure that it would make a huge difference in reading it to have read the first book in the series or the series about Claire. I enjoyed it and it kept me entertained and made me think I would like to read another book by this author either about Will or perhaps about Claire to find out more about the writing style and the people I met in this book. Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books – Lyrical Underground for the ARC – This is my honest review. 4 Stars