A Shot of Red by Tracy March – a Review

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Description:
After fleeing D.C. following a one-night stand that had her reeling, biotech company heiress Mia Moncure has thrived working with a humanitarian aid team administering vaccines in Haiti. When the United States is threatened with a flu epidemic, Mia’s grandmother demands her return to unveil a new flu vaccine for Moncure Therapeutics. She arrives to find that her ex-boyfriend, the company’s PR Director, has died in a suspicious accident in Switzerland that Mia soon suspects was murder.

Determined to reveal a killer, Mia heads to Switzerland where she’s threatened as she discovers a plan to infiltrate the vaccine for nefarious purposes. Desperate for backup, she turns to sexy Gio Lorenzo, Communications Director for her mother, a high-ranking senator–and Mia’s one-night stand. While negotiating their rocky relationship, they race to uncover a deadly scheme that could ruin her family’s reputation. But millions of people are being vaccinated, and there’s more than her family’s legacy at stake. Mia and Gio struggle to discover the truth about the scheme and their feelings for each other, but it just might be too late.  

Review:
A Shot of Red by Tracy March is a thriller, mystery, romance, adventure type story and that’s just the beginning. It’s a full out novel of the finest quality. I will be wanting to read much more of Tracy March’s work.

To really set this up properly I’d practically have to write a small novel…so here’s a quick set up, but all those wonderful details that really make the story, you must discover for yourselves.

This story features huge corporations, corrupt governments, greed, family dynamics of the powerful and so much more. It’s well written, intricately plotted and wonderfully twisty. In short, one of my favorite kind of stories! Tracy March has written a great book here and I will be reading more of Tracy’s work in the future, I hope.

Mia is a young executive for her family’s firm Moncure Therapeutics (they make vaccines for diseases). She broke up with her recent boyfriend, Brent, because he wanted marriage and she didn’t feel she loved him enough, but he still wants to marry her. A week later she had a wonderful night with Gio, a handsome hunk of wonderful that works for her mother, Senator Catherine Moncure, the deep passion she felt for him frightened her and she fled to Haiti for a few months to do volunteer work and think.

She has much going on. While she was away Brent was killed in an accident in Switzerland. However a talk with his mother leads to thinking it wasn’t an accident. He was investigating something wrong with the new flu vaccine they are launching and may have been killed. She becomes involved in an investigation of what he was doing, not knowing who to trust, except her grandmother.

Her relationship with Gio is strained, but still there. The passion flares again and they just can’t seem to stay apart despite her mother’s rules on employee’s dating her children. Her brother is always trying to upstage her as well. Her investigations lead her right into danger and intrigue.

Through her grandmothers wishes Gio joins her covertly in her investigation and they face so much together while they get to know each other and understand why she runs away from love.

That’s the set-up, WOW! This is a fast paced very intense thriller, along with a really involved love story with some love scenes hot enough to curl your toes. This story really has it all my friends. Do yourself a favor and don’t miss a second of it! Enjoy, I did!

Reviewed by Georgianna

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