Sunrise, Sky King Ranch #1 by Susan May Warren

Book description:

 Coming home was never the plan

After a terrible family fight, pilot Dodge Kingston left home to join the Air Force. A decade later, he's headed back to the destiny that awaits him as heir to Sky King Ranch. But that's not all that's waiting for him at home.

Echo Yazzie is a true Alaskan woman--a homesteader, dogsledder, and research guide for the DNR. After her childhood best friend and former flame, Dodge, fled Denali, she settled into life on the Alaskan range. She's made her peace with being left behind--by her mother and by Dodge. And she's strong enough to live without them.

When one of Echo's fellow researchers goes missing, Echo sets out to find her, despite a blizzard, a rogue grizzly haunting the woods, and the biting cold. What she doesn't know is that there are more than just the regular dangers of the Alaskan forests stalking her . . .

As Dodge sets out to find Echo, he can't ignore the feelings he still has for her. But will he be able to find her in time? And if he does, is there still room for him in her heart?

My review:

   I just started reading Susan May Warren's books in the last couple of years, and have enjoyed everything I have read by her. I was excited to see a new series by her to start the new year.

 Two things to know:
#1 There will be three books, all releasing this year. 

#2 The books are about triplet brothers, with each book being about one of the brothers: Dodge, Colt, and Ranger

  Awesome gets thrown around a lot, but this book was an awesome read. I loved the characters: Dodge, holding on to anger and unforgiveness towards one of his brothers and his dad, neither of whom he had seen for 10 years. Echo, loving a man who had left her 10 years ago, and she struggling to forgive her mother.

 This is not what I would call a mystery/suspense novel, yet the book is full of drama and suspenseful situations: poachers, a lost woman, stressful landings of planes, and more. Warren does an excellent job of describing the area of Alaska the book is set in, and weaves a great story around the characters and setting. I did find the book difficult to put down once I started reading it, and fortunately had the time free to read it in one setting.

 The book is categorized as a contemporary romance, and that has a big part of the story.

 The theme of forgiveness plays a big part in the story, and some great truths are brought in on that subject.

  There was a very satisfying end to the book, and then you turn the page and it says "what comes next". The author sets the stage for the next book, and leaves you dangling over a cliff with what is a major cliffhanger, and makes you wish the second book was out already. 

I was provided a copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions in this review are my own.

About the author:

Susan May Warren is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 85 novels with more than 1

million books sold, including the Global Search and Rescue and the Montana Rescue series, as well as Sunrise and Sunburst. Winner of a RITA Award and multiple Christy and Carol Awards, as well as the HOLT Medallion and numerous Readers' Choice Awards, Susan makes her home in Minnesota. Find her online at www.susanmaywarren.com, on Facebook @SusanMayWarrenFiction, and on Twitter @SusanMayWarren.

   

Sunrise is available from Revell Publishing, part of the Baker Publishing Group.

Thanks to Revell for the review copy.

                                                   Coming June 2022, Ranger's story

Life Flight, Extreme Measures #1 by Lynette Eason

Book description:

 EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient--and a serial killer on the loose--tests her skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help. But she's not out of the woods yet.

In the ensuing days, Penny finds herself under attack. And when news reaches Holt that he may not have gotten his man after all, it will take all he and Penny have to catch a killer--before he catches one of them.

Bestselling and award-winning author Lynette Eason is back with another high-octane tale of close calls, narrow escapes, and the fight to bring a nefarious criminal to justice.

My review:

   Lynette Eason never disappoints, and I am always excited to see a new book and series coming out by her. I have read all of her Revell books and loved them, and read all, or most of her Love Inspired books and also loved them. To review this book was a no-brainer.

  The book does not slowly go into the drama and suspense these books have. It launches immediately into it on page one with a life flight in trouble, then a forced landing, and a serial killer on the loose.

  There was a lot going on in this book, and everything was pretty much non-stop action, drama, and suspense. There were some things I did not see coming at all -  especially in regards to the serial killer - and there was one thing I did see coming in regards to a criminal towards the end of the book, I am kind of proud to say.

  Both main characters were extremely likable, and Eason did something that is not quite the normal for romantic suspense novels: the two main characters were already dating when the book began, and did not meet, fall in love, and get married while dodging bullets...not that there is anything wrong with that. It was just a good kind of different that the hero and heroine were already involved, and made the romance angle all  the more interesting and believable. 

  This was a read in one sitting book, if you can make the time......and I did. The idea of Life Flights has always intrigued me, so that made a great story all the more interesting to me. And of course the serial killer stalker ramped up the suspense. Life Flight is definitely a great start to a new series that promises to be standard setting Christian suspense. 

I was provided a copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions in this review are my own.

About the author:

Lynette Eason is the bestselling author of Life Flight and the Danger Never Sleeps, Blue Justice, Women of Justice, Deadly Reunions, Hidden Identity, and Elite Guardians series. She is the winner of three ACFW Carol Awards, the Selah Award, and the Inspirational Reader's Choice Award, among others. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and has a master's degree in education from Converse College. Eason lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children. Learn more at www.lynetteeason.com.

Life Flight is available from Revell Publishing, part of the Baker Publishing Group.

Thanks to Revell for the review copy.

Coming August 2022: Crossfire, #2 in the Extreme Measures Series