Never Let Go by Elizabeth Goddard

Never Let Go (Uncommon Justice, #1)

by Elizabeth Goddard

As a forensic genealogist, Willow Anderson is following in her late grandfather's footsteps in her quest for answers about a baby abducted from the hospital more than twenty years ago. The case may be cold, but things are about to heat up when someone makes an attempt on her life to keep her from discovering the truth.

Ex-FBI agent--and Willow's ex-flame--Austin McKade readily offers his help to protect the woman he never should have let get away. Together they'll follow where the clues lead them, even if it means Austin must face the past he's spent much of his life trying to forget. And even if it puts Willow's tender heart at risk.

In this fast-paced and emotional page-turner, bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard keeps the stakes high, the romantic tension sparking, and the outcome uncertain until the very end.

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3.75 stars
Thank you to Revell for a free copy.
Never Let Go is told in several different perspectives with Willow and Austin being the main ones. Willow's Uncle who she works with has recently passed away leaving her to take over the case he was working on. Willow must find a woman's missing daughter who was taken at birth. In order to do this though Willow is going to need some help from Austin who is a former FBI-agent and her ex. As the two get closer to finding the missing baby (now adult), someone is doing everything they can to try and stop them.
Overall I really liked this story. Willow and Austin were both likable characters who worked well together. Austin had the FBI know how still and Willow wouldn't stop at anything and had been taught how to trace the little clues by her Uncle. These little clues ended up being big ones and lead them straight to where they hoped to get more answers. The big clue also leads to far more dangerous for everyone involved including the adult who had been taken as a baby. The danger kept getting scarier the closer to the end of the book and it all ended with a surprising twist that I didn't see coming.
While this book is mainly focused on the mystery and case we also get to see Austin and Willow really talk about why they had broken up in the first place and stopped talking. I don't normally care for this, but it ended up playing into other parts of the story so it was necessary to have. They work well together when they aren't keeping secrets from one another.
I'm interested now to see what happens in Uncommon Justice as this book ended nicely with no lose case strings to figure out in the next one.

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