When Kate Grayhawk Pendelton caught her conniving husband, J.D., in the midst of an affair, her illusions of a happy marriage were shattered. Numb and devastated, she walks into a hotel bar, takes a handsome stranger by the hand and proceeds to blank out all her worries and woes with a night of unforgettable sex. Little did she realize that a decade later, that man, Wyatt Shaw, would walk back into her life and turn it upside down again.

Wyatt Shaw always remembered the beautiful woman who seduced him, and then left him as abruptly as she had come into his life. But when he discovers that the consequences of that one night had resulted in twin sons, HIS twin sons, he was determined to pull Kate Pendelton and her boys back into his life. With his connections in the D'Amato crime syndicate and his reputation as a ruthless, though unconvicted, killer, what Wyatt wants, Wyatt gets and what Wyatt wants right now is Kate and their sons, Lucky and Chance.

Kate is torn between Wyatt, the man who steams up her life, and Jack McKinley, the Texas Ranger she has loved for so long, But Jack has troubles of his own, in the form of an almost ex-wife who has turned up pregnant, and his own determination to put Wyatt Shaw in jail for life.

As Book 8 of Johnston's series, I found SHATTERED to be a hard storyline to get involved with, not being familiar with the back stories of the characters. And there is a lot of back story here, folks. But I was intrigued at how one woman, Kate, could have all these men and their lives in such an uproarious turmoil. The girl's got skills. If you're a fan of Johnston's series, then you'll enjoy the action and romance found in the continuation of the "soap opera-ish" drama of this book. But although well written, as a stand alone story -- this was a difficult book, in my opinion.

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