Shocking Behaviour by Jennifer Archer is a whole new take on the invisible man story.

Jerome Terrance "J.T." Drake, a true crime writer, has been called away from Los Angeles to Pecan Grove, Texas after a call from his father's neighbour alerts him to the what he believes is his father losing what is left of his mind and endangering himself.

Arriving home unannounced he enters his father's laboratory and accidentally activates the machine that has been his father's life's work...and renders himself invisible.

Roselyn Peabody is Professor Drake's former student and his partner in their work at perfecting the refractor machine.

The daughter of a Las Vegas showgirl Roselyn was always the plain Jane at school and a bad experience in her Senior year has made her wary of men ever since.  Never more so than when confronted by the invisible J.T. who is determined not to let a little problem like being invisible stop him from getting what he wants, and he wants Roselyn.

But can Roselyn let go of her fears and take a chance on Pecan Grove's very own bad boy?  And can she trust that when J.T. is returned to his visible form he will still need her as much as he does now?

Finally the Professor and Roselyn have found the success they have been waiting for, and J.T. is the living proof, there is only one problem.  They have never succeeded in turning a person invisible and they are not entirely sure of how to turn bring him back.

Things take a turn for the worse when an failed attempt at turning him back results in nosey neighbour, Wanda Moody's dog accidentally finding its way into the refractor and becoming invisible too. 

The secret of the experiment's beginnings is held by Professor Drake and when he reveals the truth to Roselyn and J.T. it is clear that they must confront dangers from thirty years ago if they are to succeed in returning J.T. to a visible man.

But those dangers have already cost the lives of many other people.  It is going to take everything they have and the added advantage of an invisible man to obtain the stolen research files that hold the key to completing the experiment.

Fast-paced, humorous and original, Shocking Behaviour electrifies the reader so that you can't put the book down any more than you can put down a live wire.

 
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