Title: North of Nowhere

Author: Allison Brennan

Genre: Thriller

Pages: 360

ARC: Audiobook/ Kindle

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: Augusy 8, 2023

Rating: 5 stars

Synopsis:

After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntrye have been dreading has arrived.  Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them,  They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfires hits the fuel line.  The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, mamges to crash land in the middle  of the Montana wilderness.  The siblings hike deep into the wood, searching desperately for safety- unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.

Boyd's sister Ruby left Los Angeles for the Army years ago, cutting  off contact in order to keep her niece and nephew safe and free from the horrors of the McIntyre clan.  So when she gets an emergency call that the plane has gone down with the kids inside, she drops everything to try to save them.

As the storm builds, Ruby isn't the only person looking for them.  Boyd has hired an expert tracker to find and bring them home.  And rancher Nick Lorenzo, who knows these mountains better than anyone and doesn't understand why the kids are running, is on their trail too.

But there is a greater threat to Kristen and Ryan out there.  More volatile then the incoming blizzard, more dangerous than the family they ran from or the natural predators they could encounter.  Who finds them first could determine if they live or die.

My thoughts:

Allison Brennan did an excellent job with writing this thriller about two children who are hiding from their father because he is the head of a criminal family, but there is a plot twist that even I didn't see. I was shocked but it was an excellent story. We follow the teenagers as they hide out in the mountains of Montana to not be found by their father, as numerous parties search to find them to either keep them safe or to kidnap them. This author and narrator kept my attention through out the whole book. I would definitely recommend this book to others. Hence my rating of 5 stars!

About the Author

Allison Brennan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling award winning author of three dozen thrillers and numerous short stories.  She was nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by the International Thriller Writers, had multiiple nominations and two Daphne du Maurier Awards, and is a five-time RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense.  

Allison believes that life is to shore to be bored, so she had five kids and spends all her non writing time as a sports spectator, chauffer, and short-order cook for her children.  She has a dog, two cats, and three chickens.  Allsion and her family live in northern California