Two women find themselves in threatening situations. Their cases, though, are on different ends of the risk spectrum. Still, for Josie and Rita, life could be better. In L.L. Dahl-Jensens’s Rita, Rita, love awaits these two women and finds them in different ways. Dahl-Jensen thrills and holds her audience with expert plot twists, with quirkily endearing characters and a romantic edginess that make the novel zing.