Today I am reviewing Vicki Hinze’s inspirational romantic suspense novel, FORGET ME NOT. This is a story about amnesia and intrigue. The heroine, who undergoes three name changes during the course of the story before she arrives at her real one, Kelly, is running, but she awakens not only not knowing who she is, but from whom she is running. She arrives at the Crossroads Crisis Center and causes shock to everyone there, for she is a dead ringer for hero Ben’s late wife, who was murdered along with their child. He suspects her motives, for he knows his wife is dead. Like Kelly, he is a Christian, but he’s left his faith because he is so bitter about her loss, and for awhile he is unable to relate to her as an innocent victim and as a woman he could love.

This is a convoluted story where nothing is as it seems. The viewpoints of the plotting antagonists are shown, and at times it’s hard to follow.  But I found the heroine genuinely appealing, especially when her past as an abused orphan is portrayed, and when it’s shown that her next home, while she is well cared for, does not provide a warm father figure either. I felt the frustrations of amnesia, and the patchy way memory sometimes returns in cases of amnesia, were very accurately shown. And I very much appreciated that the hero did not find it easy to just drop his mourning for his dead wife and fall in love with the heroine, especially when further revelations arise that may make it impossible for them to ever have a relationship. This made it much more realistic than many books of its type. I also appreciated the gradualness of the hero’s return to faith.

Vicki Hinze is a well-known name in romantic suspense and I look forward to further inspirational suspense novels from this author.

This book was provided free for review by Waterbrook Multnomah. It can be ordered at http://waterbrookmultnomah.com/catalog.php?isbn=9781601422057

Blessings, Laurie