Has this ever happened to you? While getting ready to review this book I found a completely different product description for the paperback version than the audio version I heard.
Product description for audio version I listened to:
One cold November night when Kat Kominski was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught.
Thirteen years later, Kat - now Kate White - has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with a nine-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA’s office. But her dark past returns to haunt her when she walks into court one day and has a devastating encounter with a prisoner, Mario Castellanos, one of her companions from that terrible night.
Hardcore criminal Mario is facing a possible sentence of twenty years. He lets Kate know that he is counting on her, his old friend turned prosecutor, to make sure he goes free instead. If Kate doesn’t do what he wants, he’ll claim she was the one who killed the off-duty cop.
Kate is in a bind: If the truth about her past gets out, she stands to lose everything, including her son. But she can’t do what Mario wants, either. As Mario ups his demands, blackmailing and terrorizing her, she is forced to turn for protection to a sexy homicide detective, Tom Braga, who suspects her of…something. The two clash repeatedly as Tom keeps digging into her past, trying to learn the truth.
Then another, far more menacing, threat rears its head, and Kate realizes that her life - and her son’s - are in terrible danger. Frantic, she sees that she has nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom….
Product description for paperback version:
One cold November night when Kat White was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught.
Sixteen years later, Kat-now Kate-has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with an eight-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA's office. But her dark past rears its head when she walks into court one day and discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, one of her friends from that terrible night.
Kate is in a bind: even though Mario was the one who probably did commit the crime, he's counting on Kate to make sure he's not convicted. If she convinces the judge of his guilt, he'll claim that she was the one who killed the off-duty cop. Before real despair sets in, Mario is found dead-in her apartment, and with her pistol. When homicide detective Tom Braga shows up to investigate the murder, Kate is far from relieved; the two have clashed since she started working for the prosecutor's office. But when another man who knows the secret of Kate's past gets involved in the investigation, she learns that her life-and her son's-are in danger. Frantic, she realizes that she has nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom…
So not only did the plot get changed around a little, the gap from the original crime to the present went from 13 years to 16 years, her son got younger and they moved from a house into an apartment. LOL If my TBR pile wasn’t threatening to topple over I just might have been tempted to read it again in paperback to see what else was different.
Besides all that, the story that I did get to hear was pretty decent as far as romantic suspense goes. Kate and Tom were likeable characters and her son Ben was so endearing with his keen observation and smarts. He reminded me of my own son’s difficulty in school being athletically challenged, book smart and shy. My only problem with the book really was that the ending let me down. There was this big lead up to an uneventful ending. Hey... maybe the paperback has a more thrilling ending?? Ha ha!
2 comments :
Nope, I've never seen that happen - they even changed her original name. That's bizarre.
Were they published by two different publishers? I've never encountered such thing before. Strange!
But back to the book, it sounds great. I'm always interested in spur of the moment life changing event. I hope it has happy ending.
Bargain with the Devil
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