Released: March 7, 2016
Romantic Suspense Novella
Reviewed by Mandi
Emma Wright works for an Ambassador’s wife, traveling the world and providing goodwill missions to very remote places. During one of these trips, the small plane Emma is on with her boss, crashes into a jungle island. After gaining consciousness, Emma sees her boss is dead, but the pilot, while unconscious, has a faint pulse. Emma finds his satellite phone, gets down from the plane, and tries to find higher ground so she can call for help. When Emma returns to the plane, she sees the pilot has been shot in the head. Knowing danger is lurking out there, she spends a very dark, and lonely night alone in the jungle.
Ryan Owen is a SEAL and leader of the Alpha Crew, dispensed to find the Ambassador’s wife and any survivors. When they reach the plane, Emma isn’t there, but they see her footsteps leading away. Ryan finally ends up finding her and they have quite the dramatic rescue as the bad guys come back. Sometime later, Emma reconnects with Ryan in San Diego – Emma refuses to give up the investigation as to why the pilot was shot and the real reason the plane went down – which brings the bad guys to her door again.
I really enjoy Griffin’s Tracer’s series, which is an excellent murder-mystery romantic suspense series. My one complaint in those books, however, is that the romance is always on the lighter side. In this book, Griffin definitely ramps up the sex. Ryan is so sexy – trying to be a very disinclined SEAL on his rescue mission, but he can’t help but admit his lust when it comes to Emma:
When he had found her, he’d disregarded all mission discipline and allowed himself to look at her as a woman and not some crash survivor he needed to rescue. And then he’d compounded that mistake by letting her sweet-talk him into staying here alone with her.
And if all that weren’t bad enough? He’d started getting personal with her until their entire conversation was reduced to whispers in the dark.
She shifted on his legs, and Ryan’s gut clenched. Jesus, he’d had knife wounds less painful than this. All her squeezable curves were right within reach, and if she didn’t stop wiggling around on him, he was going to lose his mind.
Ryan has those very quiet, controlled emotions that SEALS tend to have that makes my romantic heart beat. He tries to act very disinterested but then he grabs Emma and can’t contain himself. I approve of this.
While they have hot make-out sessions, Emma can’t give up her quest to find out the real motivation for her plane going down, signaling interest from some very bad guys. This book (which is more novella length) ends up with a cliffhanger, which will be resolved in book two, Edge of Surrender, out March 28. I do think it’s a bummer that it’s $3.99 for a novella, that could have been a full-length – but – it’s fun nonetheless.
Grade: B
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