The Darkest Corner by Liliana Hart
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Series: Gravediggers #1
Released May 23, 2017
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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart’s first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving it—and no one can ever know.
The world thinks they’re dead. The world is wrong.
Deacon Tucker is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows he’s alive, and he’ll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for God’s sake, don’t ever fall in love. That’s a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man can’t be brought back from.
Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop, Texas. She has no idea how Deacon Tucker ended up in her funeral home, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s only a funeral home assistant. Deacon is dangerous, deadly, and gorgeous. And she knows her attraction to him can only end in heartache.
Deacon is on a mission to stop the most fatal terror attack the world has ever known—what’s known as The Day of Destiny—a terrorist’s dream. But when he discovers Tess has skills he can use to stop them, he has to decide if he can trust her with secrets worth dying for. And, most important, he has to decide if he can trust her with his heart.
I’ve been waiting for The Darkest Corner for a while now. I love Liliana’s work and she always delivers. That said I was kind of let down in this book. I’m sure you’re wondering that if was let down, why I would still give it 4 stars.
Well, the first half was a lot of world building and you have to have that in the beginning of a series… and I understand that and the plot was built up little by little which I loved, but I was constantly waiting for the suspense to start. Once the ball got rolling on the Day of Destiny, I was hooked and couldn’t put it down!
The depth and thought put into the Day of Destiny plans really has me looking over my shoulder and there are things, that I will never look at the same thanks to reading this book. The Darkest Corner takes place in Last Stop, Texas which is set just outside of Dallas, and of course I live outside of Dallas so I can only image this happening down the street from me.
I can’t wait to read the next book in this series, now that the groundwork has been laid I am ready to jump right into the action! The Darkest Corner is the start of an epic romantic suspense series.
