The cover for Melissa Koslin's Dangerous Beauty is exquisite and incredibly melancholy—that alone lured me to it—and I purposefully skipped reading the blurb because I wanted to be completely surprised by the story and characters. I went into the book utterly naive with hopeful expectations and came out enthralled, astonished, and profoundly impressed.
Two short words mark the beginning of the story: She ran. Liliana Vela, the key protagonist, is running for her life on the opening page. Her captors, sex traffickers, kidnapped her from an impoverished Mexican village, but she has just managed to escape their grasp. Scared to death and abandoned in America, Liliana must entrust her life and faith to a stranger who comes to her aid—Meric Toledan.
When Meric happened to stop at the right service station at the right time, he wasn't seeking to save Liliana; he was only looking to get a bottle of water. Nevertheless, he ended up running across a woman who needed his help—I don't want to spoil the rest of the story, so I'm stopping here.
Dangerous Beauty is a Snow White meets Prince Charming romantic story with a dark shadow lurking in the background—human trafficking—a subject I never expected to see in a Christian romance novel. I was lured into Melissa Koslin's deft writing straightaway, unable to take my eyes off her haunting prose, flipping the pages—until I reached the very last line.╌★★★★★
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