The following review was contributed by JULIE AMIDON

Get ready for a great ride! Kiss of Deceit took me down a road of intrigue, romance, with a twist at the end I probably should have seen coming; but didn't....

Take a small town female deputy, who's big on heart, and really wants to be a cop to Help people, not harass them, (wow, what a concept!). She wants to get the bad guy(s) that are leaving a bloody trail through her small town where everyone knows your name...and your business as well. Her job isn't a dating service, it's much more important than that, so of course it's on the job that she meets the fellow straight out of her wettest dreams.

Just like a cop, she puts him in jail, after all, his wife is dead, the evidence trail seems to lead straight to him…and he's a biker to boot.

Knowing he's guilty before interviewing him, questioning after he asks her to help prove his innocence, she and her fellow deputies set out to find the truth. And the killer keeps killing.

A stripper, a doctor's wife, a single woman, a deputy's wife, with nothing seemly in common except that they have been slowly strangled to dead in their beds, wrists bound with a scarf or hanky.

The pressure mounts, people want to feel safe again. But the killer knows his business well, and leaves no clues…other than a kiss, in the victims own lipstick…a deadly kiss of deceit.

Just because it's a small town dept. doesn't mean they don't know how to do a careful and complete investigation. The smallest clues are collected and analyzed, the evidence slowly piles up as the killer, or killers seem to become more confident in their righteous invincibility, their innate knowledge that what they are doing is ""right"", the victims deserve their gruesome fate.

LeAnn's future husband happens to be the chief prosecutor, and he is very impatient with her insistence on ""the truth"". She plans to marry Chad while dreaming of the biker ""Snake""/ Marcus, and feeling properly guilty about it, eventually opens herself up to the possibilities…and enjoys it very much, leading her to decide that maybe marriage isn't such a good idea after all.

Partly because of her affair, partly because she discovered a strength in herself she never knew she had to be true to herself, and survive becoming the target of a serial killer.

I appreciate the research Patricia Rasey puts into her scenes, characters, and her skill at weaving believability into a intriguing, easy-to-read tale.

This is a well written, fast paced read that doesn't want to be put down once started, with a satisfying ending that leaves the door open for The Next Book in the Series…."" Eyes of Betrayal"".

And that's all I'm going to say, I don't want to give the story away. Except, you're definitely want to go out with a biker, or at the least take your bike or favorite biker for a nice long ride when you're done with this great read…!