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The Stars Shine Bright

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FBI Special Agent Raleigh Harmon novels always bring edge-of-your-seat suspense. After the FBI suspends her for bending its rules, Raleigh is looking for a chance to redeem her career and re-start her life.

Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out who's fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something bigger—and more sinister—is ruining Emerald Meadows.

She's never felt more alone.

Her one contact with the FBI is Special Agent Jack Stephanson, a guy who seems to jump from antagonistic to genuine friend depending on the time of day. And she can't turn to her family for support. They're off-limits while she's undercover, and her mother isn't speaking to her anyway, having been confined to a mental hospital following a psychotic breakdown. Adding insult to her isolation, Raleigh's fiancé wants them to begin their life together—now—precisely when she's been ordered not to be herself.

With just days left before the season ends, Raleigh races to stop the killing and find out who's behind the track's trouble, all the while trying to determine if Jack is friend or foe, and whether marrying her fiancé will make things better—or worse.

Raleigh is walking through the darkest night she's faced, searching for a place where the stars shine bright.

  • Gripping suspense
  • The Raleigh Harmon novels are best enjoyed in order, but can also be read as standalones:
  • Book 1: The Stones Cry Out
  • Book 2: The Rivers Run Dry
  • Book 3: The Clouds Roll Away
  • Book 4: The Mountains Bow Down
  • Book 5: The Stars Shine Bright
  • Book length: approximately 110,000 words
  • Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        May 28, 2012
        Christy Award–winner Giorello arrives with the fifth in the Raleigh Harmon series, (after The Mountains Bow Down) which brings some closure to angst the protagonist feels about her mentally ill mother and overbearing fiancé. FBI agent Harmon, who was disciplined for stealing evidence, tries to redeem herself on assignment, but is forced to live a double life as she goes undercover in a horse race–fixing scandal. When horses die at the race track, she learns that the death of the animals is only a by-product of a more evil plot. Special Agent Jack Stephanson appears to play a lesser role, but the reader finds out he’s with Raleigh in ways she never imagined throughout the story. Giorello’s writing is poignant, concrete, and humorously descriptive yet sincere: “Crabby from salt bloat and layers of big fat lies, I grabbed my purse from the Ghost and stomped toward the track’s private entrance.” Research on geology, horse racing, and law enforcement, is vividly on display throughout the story, adding to Giorello’s reputation as a pro and a shining star. Agent: Brian Peterson.

      • Library Journal

        June 15, 2012

        Special Agent Raleigh Harmon (The Mountains Bow Down) has been suspended by the FBI and needs to redeem her career. Her chance comes when she goes undercover to determine who is fixing races and killing off thoroughbreds. Being separated from her family and friends could not have happened at a worse time. She's not sure she can trust FBI Special Agent Jack Stephanson, Plus, her fiance wants to marry immediately and she's not sure it's a good idea. VERDICT Featuring grit and lots of action, Giorello's latest Raleigh Harmon thriller is a sure bet for romantic suspense fans who enjoy Irene Hannon or Lynette Eason.

        Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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