FINDING YOUR MOJO

Author: Stephanie Bond ISBN: 0060821078 11/2006 SUSPENSE Publisher: AVON

Q: Where to go when you've lost your mojo? A: Baby, drive south. When attorney Gloria Dalton arrives in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana, she's desperate for change. Her past haunts her—at sixteen she was forced into the Witness Protection Program and ripped away from Zane Riley, the boy she loved. After years of heartbreak and hiding, she's hoping that this move will be her last, that she can make a life for herself among the quirky residents of Mojo. But Gloria's optimism fades when a welcome gift turns out to be a voodoo doll and her male paralegal suffers a shocking death. When the new Chief of Police arrives on the scene, Gloria's life takes another left turn—it's her first love, Zane, who doesn't recognize her behind her careful disguise. Concealing her identity and her feelings for Zane is killing her, but when it's revealed that her employee was murdered and secrets begin to spill, Gloria realizes it's going to take a special kind of voodoo to keep her quest for her own personal mojo from hitting a dead end!

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

FINDING YOUR MOJO is the sequel to IN DEEP VOODOO, which I haven't read yet, but I was able to enjoy this book because there was plenty of information to clarify issues from the first book, plus the main characters here are more-or-less newcomers on the scene.

Mojo, Louisiana, is a town with a voodoo problem. Something bad happened in the first book in the series, and there are still quite a few baddies around blackmailing and stealing, that kind of thing. Attorney Gloria Dalton is attracted to the town for some reason, after working on a divorce case in the first book, and moves here. Gloria has quite a story. She's actually in the Witness Protection Program and the man whose actions put her there is out of jail. If that weren't enough, her new paralegal is murdered on her doorstep. Then, she discovers the new chief of police was her boyfriend before she had to flee into WITSEC, and he's been searching for her all these years.

I really liked the book. There's a lot going on, but we stay focused on Gloria and her efforts to figure out her life. It's really a very sweet, fun book in a lot of ways, despite the murder and mayhem!

Heather Hiestand