Story and characters just didn’t feel real!

Captain Maddox Stone walks into trouble when he takes leave from his military posting to sort out his family farm finances and ends up being hit in the head with a metal bar during a drug-related kidnapping. That’s nothing compared to the hit to the heart he takes when his old flame, Lieutenant River Seeger, descends on the farm with his special ops team to sort out the drug gang. River is supremely unhappy with his long-term boyfriend and Maddox is a huge distraction on this rescue op.

I didn’t enjoy this for a whole bunch of reasons, but the main ones are: the lack of main character development or depth, too many characters, the whiplash of skipping from one event to the next at breakneck speed, and the overly mushy emotions and relationship angst of supposedly hard military men who are focussed on a mission. Giving the characters snappy military nicknames wasn’t enough to convince me these guys could be for real. There’s also cheating which may offend some. I loved a previous book by this author but this one has me totally questioning my judgement. 🎧 Troy Duran has an attractively deep voice and manner that kept me listening.

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