Gone to Her Grave by Melinda Leigh [Review]

Gone to Her Grave (Rogue River #2) by Melinda Leigh
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: October 29, 2018

Rogue River
1. On Her Father's Grave
2. Gone to Her Grave - Kindle
3. Her Grave Secrets
4. Walking on Her Grave

Melinda Leigh
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

In Solitude, Oregon, everyone has secrets…and some will kill to keep them.

When she believes a teen is falsely accused of drug dealing, social worker Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case and her estranged husband—the detective in charge of the investigation—to prove the boy innocent. A deadly new designer drug has taken hold of her small rural hometown of Solitude, Oregon, and Carly is determined to find the real dealer and clear the teen’s name. But the deeper she digs into the case, the more danger she unearths, until someone decides it’s time for Carly to move on…permanently.

Investigator Seth Harding knows he can’t stop his wife when she has a child to protect. But he risks any chance of reconciliation with Carly if he can’t learn to accept her dangerous job. When a drug dealer decides Carly is getting too close, will Seth lose her altogether?

Thoughts on Gone to Her Grave: Okay. So book 1 gave us the beginning of Stevie's story and book 2 is dropping us into the slightly dented marriage of Carly and Seth. It's gotta be hard living in a small town where everybody knows your business and you have to keep soldiering on even when your heart is breaking.

Picking up some time after the events in book 1, Carly and Seth get sucked into the drug deaths that rocked Solitude. Carly, as the social worker trying to keep someone she believes is innocent from going to jail, and Seth, as one of the investigators who's tracking down leads on the new drug in town.

For all they still love each other, these two certainly have a hard time communicating. It takes more than a pinch of danger and a few pointed words from Mama Taylor for the two of them to make any inroads in their issues. (And, to be honest, they still have a long way to go. But it's a start.)

With some unpleasant realizations about their father's death being brought up and this drug scare picking up steam, Carly and Stevie have their work cut out for them. Plus, the romancing. They have plenty of romancing in their future, methinks.

Onto book 3.