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The plot of this book revolves around the murder of Dave Kazimoroff, homicide detective, loving brother of the h, Mia. The H, Jack Burton, is Dave's soon to be ex-partner, whom he hates- for no known reason he can understand. It begins with the h, Mia, sustaining broken ribs and ankle in a riding mishap but within only days, she's hot on the trail of her brother's murderer. Inasmuch as he died from an overdose of Ecstasy, it's an unsual crime. Now, the crazy begins. All the main characters are either fellow officers, their wives or their girlfriends, who- as it turns out have all been sleeping with the victim. Carol, the wife of the police Chief was having a 3-way with the victim and another married officer, who happens to be a sadist lunatic. His wife Trish, a battered mousy type keeps quiet about her abuse which enables the 'good cop' to continue his kidnapping, raping, brutalizing episodes. Karen, the coroner, had a one night flling with the H and wants more but he's not interested and still having issues with his ex-wife, Dianne, who has also slept with the victim AND the teenage yard boy, which caused the divorce between her and the H, Jack Burton. I was dizzy with confusion with so many women jumping in and out of bed with whomever, taking videos of their sex play and the blatant drug use. Remember, these are all GOOD cops. Mia, the h was a bit easier to remember only because her name was unique above the others. Her paranormal abilities were confusing, as they didn't contribute anything helpful and were therefore inept to the solving of anything. Somehow, the H's character was softened with the confusing resuce of an abused dog, Daisy- not exactly sure how that happened as the scene was so vague. Now, comes Heather, the fiancee of the victim, who is bored since her true love is now gone (two weeks) and seeks out Keith, his best friend and becomes his newest victim- kidnapped, beaten, and raped, she disappears from the story while Keith continues to lust after his best friends's sister, Mia, whom he finally manages to kidnap, drug, beat, and use rather sensational tools to torture her for three hours before carrying out his plan to rape her. Aha! The H tracks Mia down, finds her in a storage unit, hanging from the cieiling by her bound hands, She's been beaten, burned, cut, whipped, shocked with a cattle prod,.. but not raped, YET. Due to the drugs, she has no memory of the attacker, or the evil doer. In three days, she bounces right back into the investigation of her slain brother, who by this time, I'm elated that he's been taken out of commission. At this point, she should've been on life support with the extent of injuries..not so. Unwillingly, since Jack has fallen in love with Mia, he refuses to have sex with her and stops just short of completing the act. Now then, the h, Mia, in her frustration describes the interlude to the readers. Unbelievable!...Mia, a twenty-eight year old virgin with a Master's Degree uses such crude descriptive wording that the potential love scene is disgusting. Matter of fact, with the rampant sexual immorality throughout...the entire plot comes off- dirty, indecent, and shocking. But- the worst part is when Mia experiments with the date rape drug just to understand the effects, it's almost a commercial ad encouraging it's use. She allows the reader to experience her happy, happy sensation of peace and exilaration, excessive energy rush and sense of undeniable pleasure. The formatting was sloppy but only because the writer used justified alignment with hypens which often spreads two or three words across one entire line. The fact that she didn't correct it and republish leads me to believe 'her' action (and at this point I'm suspecting the author is a male ghost writer) was not in polishing a finished product, but in producing more of the same ASAP. If I must give it a star rating, I'll give it ONE star as the title, 'Reckless'; was, indeed just that, add dangerous, since many readers were given a thoughtful sample of Ecstasy. I would never encourage anyone to read tthis book, nor will I attempt to plow through anything else thrown together by this writer. As an avid reader, I've critiqued many books and as a writer, I know the extreme pressure of creating, editing, re-writing, formatting, re-formatting and publishing. Without re-writing or polishing out the rough edges, this book is, in my opinion, is literary garbage. FYI. I have a tendacity to be lenient with my critiques. This is only book I've ever rated so low. I've been honest and actually searched for something....anything- good by which I could rate it higher, but it just isn't there.