Little Girl Gone by Amanda Stevens is the first book in her Procedural Crime series. This is a gritty, surprising second chance 
romance.
Thea Lamb is a FBI Special Agent who works in Washington DC on child disappearance cold cases. She goes to her hometown of Black Creek, Florida after a little girl is kidnapped from her mother’s house where her four-year-old sister Maya disappeared from twenty-eight years previously. Time is of the essence in these cases. Thea doesn’t want another mother to suffer the loss of her child like she and her mother suffered when Maya disappeared. Can she help in this case?
Jake Stillwell’s FBI CARD team (Child Abduction Rapid Deployment) was called in from Jacksonville, Florida when Kylie Buchanan disappeared and was presumed to be a kidnapping victim. Jake knew the circumstances were similar to what happened to his ex-girlfriend Thea Lamb’s twin sister. Same house, the little girl snatched from the same bedroom through an open window. Jake wasn’t surprised to find Thea in Florida wanting to help. He could just imagine the bad memories that this case would have revived in Thea’s mind. His priority right now though is to find Kylie Buchanan.
I liked the two main characters, Thea Lamb and Jake Stillwell. They both overcame difficult childhoods. They both are very dedicated and willing to do whatever it takes. For the most part this book was a real page-turner with a couple slower spots. I think the storyline set up the overall arc of the mystery of the disappearance of Maya Lamb well while covering the investigation and search for the current missing child. I look forward to Ms. Stevens’ next book in the series as I am hoping for more clues about the cold case.
Book Info:
Publication: December 28th 2021 | Harlequin Intrigue | Procedural Crime #1
Nothing matters more to her
when a child’s life is at stake.
Special agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a twenty-eight-year-old cold case—her twin sister’s abduction. Working with her former partner, Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first…until now.
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Discover more action-packed stories in the A Procedural Crime Story series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:
Book 1: Little Girl Gone
Book 2: John Doe Cold Case
