Capturing Fate by Abbie Roads
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Daughter Dawson is a clinical psychologist with her own practice and a loving family backing up her every decision, but that all changes when she goes for a job interview at a prison where she is trapped in a room with someone and a secret is revealed that she cannot believe and then she is sworn to secrecy and is threatened with severe repercussions if it is revealed. Dolan Watts is an FBI agent with a haunted past, he has grown up in foster care feeling that he can only rely on himself and that despite his independence, he is lacking and that he has to go everything alone, this lands him in trouble one day when he is working undercover and breaks his cover to apprehend a criminal who is escaping, but nobody is willing to believe him when he tries to explain what he has just witnessed and the fact that he isn’t a team player or someone who plays by the rules ends up with him having to see a psychologist. What neither Daughter or Dolan expect is that they will end up as therapist and client after what each of them know but cannot tell the other, however, the one thing that they can’t avoid or deny is the instant attraction which they feel, but cannot act on due to professional boundaries, but they agree that in time, maybe they can acknowledge their feelings after some time has passed.

Two years to the day later and Daughter is trying to decide whether to make the phone call she desperately wants to, but she is running scenarios through her head of what might have happened in the intervening years and hesitates, in the end, she decides to call her mother up for some advice, but when she doesn’t get an answer she goes to their house, however when she gets there, her worst nightmares become reality but instead of calling 911, she calls Dolan and he immediately gets the address and high tails it over to see her. As Dolan supports her over the next 24 hours as she has to relive her nightmare over and over again, she asks him to stay with her and one thing leads to another and they finally realise that everything they have both been waiting for is reciprocated by the other and as the whole truth comes out, fate intervenes and just as they are starting something meaningful, it is ripped apart.

Dolan then tries to figure out a way from the mess that has been orchestrated around him and as others are dragged into this mess, it is clear that there is someone manipulating them all like puppets and that there are more lies and secrets to unravel before the web can be broken open, but danger and conspiracies surround them, but can Daughter and Dolan figure out who is behind everything, how they are doing it and what the ultimate goal is, or will everyone they love be targeted? This crime thriller is a whirlwind of lies, deceit, ulterior motives and twists and turns which keep you hooked as the mystery increases with the danger and leaves you rushing to find out the conclusion as well.

Reviewed by @roxsannel

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