The ending was a surprise!

Faith = Dinah = Faith

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It had a lot of moving parts and was written really well. The twist at the end honestly was a bit confusing for me, and left me with more questions than answers lol I’m still not sure I understand it!

Hiding in the Shadows by Kay Hooper is a great story. There are many elements to the story that keep it exciting and suspenseful.

When you first meet Dinah Leighton she is working as an investigative journalist. She is hot on a story and then she just disappears. Her boyfriend Cain McGregor is doing all he can to get clues about her disappearance, including a million dollar reward for information.

While this is going on Faith Parker, who was in an automobile accident which resulted in a coma has woken up. She has no memories of her life, even her name. She is confused when she begins to have dreams of a man that she seems to be involved with. She has no information on him because she was informed that she did not have a boyfriend of her own.

Confused and lost Faith happens to see a new report about a missing woman and she recognizes the man being interviewed on the screen.

Faith sets out to find Dinah and places herself in constant danger. She is introduced to a Psychic FBI agent, Noah Bishop, who listens to her stories of visions and voices. He has his own powers so he is more likely to understand her even when she is unsure.

The story was very gripping. Kay Hooper draws you into the lives of Faith, Cain, Noah and Dinah in such an intense dramatic way. Each chapter is filled with new visions, new fears and new revelations.

Faith is hands on in the search for her own past as well as the fate of Dinah. She follows leads that Dinah provides psychically as well as the leads that she stumbles upon on her own. Believe me there is no one above suspicion. I found myself distrusting almost everyone at one time or another.

I have found a writer that does suspense so well, that I will be definitely be reading her other romantic suspense novels.

I listened to this as an audiobook and I can tell you that the narrator did an outstanding job. Her pacing was perfect as was her characterization of the voices. The recording I heard did not give her name, but she was great. She brought the story alive with her narration. I did not know this was a second book of a series about Noah Bishop, but now that I do know, I will be reading the first book of the series. The first book is called Stealing Shadows. Just a great book, if you like well written romantic suspense, then you need to read this one.

I liked it for the most part, but I didn't like the end. I thought it was a dumb ending, and too unrealistic.

Little creepy to fall in love with a woman who may be the "reincarnation" of your dead lover sorta kinda.

Interesting without being all-consuming. Mild-to-moderate swearing and innuendo, one sex scene. I really appreciated that even though torture was a significant part of the plot, Hooper didn't go into details or make it super dark.

So, when I first got this book, I did what I usually do - I skimmed through it and sorta saw some of the explanation at the end (yeah, I got ADD, and that's how I read)....anyway, that plot resolution was very out there for me, and I decided not to waste my time and went to the next book; but then I saw the mention of the Bishop's best friend from college being the only one who was allowed to call him Noah, and I decided to go back and read about this friend. After finishing this book (this time in its entirety) and reading about Kane, I can totally appreciate the friend and the friendship. This story is actually not as gory as the others, also fast paced and engrossing, plus it shows to what depravity greed can bring people - but that part of the answer is still out there, in my opinion.. although spending time with Kane and Bishop was worth it....

This is very well written and I enjoyed the combination of mystery and supernatural, but it just felt very small.

Doing a re-read of one of my favourite series! While this isn't the best in the series, it's still an enjoyable read. I really found the struggle that Faith was going through interesting, even the third or forth time around. However, The plot's a little boring, the characters a little stale, and the paranormal a little low.

Still though, I still re-read it every time I do a series re-read, so it has something that catches my attention.

Maybe if romantic suspense, doused with unbelievable psychic ability is your thing, this book could be for you, but don't look for poetic prose or characters with any depth.

well writen, not to long, interesting.

We start out with Dinah and Kane, two people obviously in love and in a relationship, but something holds Dinah back from full commitment. Then we switch to Faith Parker who is just waking up from a coma and we learn that Faith's friend, Dinah was kidnapped 2 weeks earlier. Faith has no memory of her life or who she is, but she dreams of intimate moments with Kane, who she recognizes on the television. She seeks him out and comes to the conclusion that she's dreaming about Dinah's memories...so there must be a connection. Kane, along with his friend (and psychic FBI guy) Bishop, help Faith investigate her life to see if she can give any help in locating Dinah and what she and Faith had learned that might have gotten Dinah kidnapped. Along the way, Faith and Kane fight an attraction which has Kane furious with himself. How can he be falling for Faith when he's still in love with Dinah and so focused on finding her?

Just like with the first one, the suspense here is solid and gripping. I liked that Faith was getting flashbacks of what happened to Dinah and the suspense of what was happening to her regarding her memory and what was hers and what was Dinah's was riveting as well. For me though, this story suffered in the romance department. Kane spends half the story resenting Faith because he's starting to fall for her and he's trying to remember really hard that he's in love with Dinah. His guilt is really well-written and totally believable, but it soured the relationship between Kane and Faith. Not only that, but it has you doubting that happy ending the whole way through the book. Then you learn "the twist" and  it satisfies the romance aspect of things since Kane isn't technically being "unfaithful" to Dinah's memory  but it left a sour taste in my mouth overall. Now I'm left with questions about  who Faith is really, how much of it is really just the old Dinah and how anything remained of Faith in the first place. I mean, Faith was this person we were getting to know and only exhibiting personality traits that belonged to Dinah and then we find that's quite right, she's actually more Dinah than she has any right to expect and I felt awful for Faith - yes, they felt like two different people in the same body. It's felt a bit like split personalities and one identity has to subvert the other . So the twist kind of felt like a betrayal of my connection with Faith, the character, through this story and I didn't like it. It was definitely a clever (and unseen) twist, but it lessened my overall enjoyment of the story.