Wired Ghost: Vigilante Justice Thriller Series

Toby Neal

Apr 2020 · Paradise Crime Thrillers Book 11 · Neal Enterprises INC

About this ebook

If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE.

✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive

✅ Likes kids and animals more than people

✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity

✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never.

Paradise is drowning in lava.

What would you do to survive during a volcanic eruption?

Security specialists Sophie and Jake take a job to rescue a teen girl shacked up with a dangerous meth cooker on the Big Island, and their wilderness destination turns out to be in the path of the biggest eruption Hawaii has seen in decades. Soon, they’re embroiled in a natural disaster too hot for anyone to handle.

Trapped underground in a lava tube, engulfed by darkness and heat, they struggle to outrun a deadly force that consumes everything in its path.

“I rapidly devour each book in this series as soon as they're released. Neal's writing immerses you into the story, with multi-faceted characters that you'll be interested in and care about. Cannot put them down!” — Reviewer

Ratings and reviews

I read a lot of books. Since retirement, I read about a book a day. In my lifetime, I have read thousands of books. I take my Kindle with me where ever I go and read every chance I get. If it is a really good book, I will stay up reading until I finish the book or just can’t keep my eyes open. There are a lot of good writers out there in the world with good ideas for plot lines that aren’t too cliched or done to death. However, my favorites don’t just string words together in a coherent manner, they are storytellers. A storyteller makes you care about their characters. They invite you into a hero/heroine that is human, complex, and someone you’d like to meet and befriend. A storyteller builds the story with each page, pulling you along to read just one more paragraph, one more page, one more chapter until you are at the end and you want to read more. As the story’s tension builds, the reader’s breath intensifies, the heart begins to race, and you are fully drawn into the pace of the story. Toby Neal is a storyteller of the best kind. She develops her characters as though they are real people, people you want to know. Even her ‘bad guys’ have developed personalities and back stories to explain their actions. Her plots are feasible. The arc of the story is plausible. Her characters relate to each other in authentic ways. Set in the Hawaiian Islands, she includes their history, their customs, their problems and their pleasures. Wired Ghost, Neal’s latest in telling Sophie’s story takes place 2 years after her last book. Much has changed while the past still has a stronghold on Sophie’s heart and mind. Wired Ghost introduces a new hunk of a man in her life as Sophie deals with her feelings for Alika, Connor and Jake. Stolen diamonds, a trip to San Francisco, and her daughter, Momi, all take her attention as she takes a break from being a CEO to working in the field again. Wired Ghost can be read as a stand-alone story, but I highly recommend that you start from the beginning of Sophie’s journey. Reading the earlier books in order will give a greater depth of understanding and enjoyment to this installment. If I could give Wired Truth and Toby Neal 6 stars I would, but 5 will have to do.

Sophie and Jake are working together to bring back a kidnapped daughter, however they get into a bit of a situation underground involving Lava tubes and a volcano. As someone from the UK I had no idea what a lava tube was ( I immediately thought of a lava lamp!) anyway after a bit of googling I am now well aware of what it is and how scary it must be. we dip in and out of the world with Sophie and Jake and also pop in with Connor and his new world. its a story with lots of twists and turns and you cant put it down.

I was privileged to get an advanced readers copy of the book and here is my honest opinion. As always I do enjoy action none-stop, easy-to-follow storyline, well developped characters, colorful settings for the story, also learn something new in every book (for example in this one have researched "Kipuka" and some of the Haiwaii specific plants and trees). And this time the story also had a really unexpected plot-twist added to the mix. I'd think this can be read as a standalone but really would recommend to read earlier books in this series to get a deeper undestanding of characters and the storyline, it is definitelly worth your time. Best thing about it - it's definitielly not the last in the series :)

About the author

***Kirkus Reviews calls Neal's writing, "persistently riveting. Masterly."***

Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories.

Readers rave: "We love Toby's fast-paced, character-driven stories set in wonderful places. Nobody can read just one!"

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Enjoy a badass female cop? Neal's Paradise Crime Mysteries, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii from the bottom of the ocean to the top of volcanoes.

Spinoff Paradise Crime Thrillers, with Lei's friend Sophie, features a tech sleuth with a mean left hook and an ongoing vigilante justice manhunt.

Neal's also written the romance thriller Scorch Series (with Emily Kimelman) and her own Somewhere Series romances under Toby Jane.

Toby's memoir, Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, has been widely praised. Kirkus calls Freckled, "an affecting and riveting chronicle...in a Hawaii long lost." She writes memoir under TW Neal.

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