Two Reasons to Run

Title: Two Reasons to Run

Series: Pelican Harbor #2

Author: Colleen Coble

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genre: Christian Fiction, Suspense,

Source: Library

My Review:

Two Reasons to Run is the second book in the Pelican Harbor series. It is best to read the series in order. Two Reasons to Run picks up a few weeks after One Little Lie ends. I accidentally read the third book before this one, and it gives spoilers, but it had been long enough that I did not remember everything.

A common theme in Colleen Coble's  books is that it is hard to identify the bad guy until the end. This one is no different. You see hints throughout the story, but not enough to connect the dots.

Jane has trust issues stemming from the lies she has been told all her life. Her trust issues and doubts make her more relatable and her raw emotions in this book more real. She has to be strong for her job, but we see softer sides of her in her interactions with Will and Reid. 

There are many layers to this book, as avid fans of Coble have come to expect. While the main story is wrapped up, the overall story arc that threads the trilogy still has threads dangling.

I highly recommend not only this book but the whole Pelican Harbor series to those who enjoy romantic suspense novels.

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads): 

The gripping second installment of the Pelican Harbor series from USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble!

Police Chief Jane Hardy has only just been reunited with her long-lost son when she learns of an impending terror attack that threatens everything she holds dear.

A lie changed her world. Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father—the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she’s finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Dixon.

When a murder aboard the Gulf Coast oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental terrorist’s plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil, Jane and Reid must put their feelings for each other aside and work together to prevent the looming sabotage.

When the terrorist puts Will’s life on the line, protecting him could be the common ground Jane and Reid need . . . until ghosts from the past threaten to ruin their fragile relationship for good. Jane has plenty of reasons to run. But what if she stays?