Into the Fire

The Offer by D. L. Wood is a part of the Deadly Decision Collection. 

Addie Nichols is an up and coming chef in her Manhattan restaurant. Having recently survived a tough breakup, she's immersed in making her restaurant a success, but the financial toll is hefty, and she's worried. One evening, she's interrupted by a request from a patron and must step out of the kitchen to see who insists on seeing her. The brash woman dressed in designer duds offers Addie 10 thousand dollars to make a weekend trip to a secluded island to prepare food for her husband's birthday. Hoping to make it a private weekend for them with Addie serving her special creations, she talks Addie into making the trip. The reason she's selected Addie is because her husband had previously eaten at Addie's restaurant and raved about one of her desserts. 

Addie has suspicions about the woman, but the offer is the proverbial "too good to be true". Nevertheless, having been told a car will be sent for her, she makes the long trip with a can't-be-bothered-to-be-civil driver and a kind and attractive ferry operator who drops her at her destination and helps her take her bags to the downstairs kitchen of the impressive and isolated mansion. 

From this point on, prepare for the noir – Alfred Hitchcock type experience. The bizarre begins and Addie feels trapped but determined to pull off this gig and get out of this weird circumstance in which she's found herself a captive.  D. L. Wood does a very good job of making the house creepy, the people creepier, and the situation almost impossible for Addie. She wants to call the kind ferry guy who assured her he would come for her if she needed him, but before she can get things wrapped up, everything goes horribly wrong. 

If you want a quick, noir-ish suspense novel, this new one by D. L. Wood provides that dark atmosphere of a heroine caught in a deadly decision. 

Father, thank you for your authors. Please continue to bless D. L. and provide more stories you have just for her to tell. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.