Extreme Measures

 

Published January 4th 2022

 by Fleming H. Revell Company

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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 the killer catches one of them.

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My Review:

This is the first book in Lynette Eason's new series Extreme Measures. 

This book is set in the mountains of North Carolina and centers around Penny Carlton and FBI Special Agent Holton Satterfield.  Penny is a paramedic and rescue pilot for Lifeflight.  Penny is also the daughter of movie star Geneva Queen.  Penny's character is quiet interesting.  As a young girl she experience a trauma that has shaped the young woman she has become.  First she's very smart, caring, compassionate, well respected, speaks her mind, but also keeps her personal life very private.  She doesn't try to hide it, but she also doesn't advertise it.  In the last 5 years Holt has went from one crisis to another it seems. First his partener was murdered during an attempted rescue attempt during a kidnapping, his sister was arrested and confessed to killing her husband, then while trying to bring in a serial killer was critically injured.  Holt is a great guy, but also a well respected agent.  Everyone likes him, including Penny. 

One stormy afternoon Penny gets a call out for a young injured girl who needed immediate transfer.  Weighing her options and looking at the storm she agreed to take off, hoping if all went well she would  just beat the storm.  Of course nothing goes as planned and suddenly Penny finds herself flying in the worse storm she ever flown in. Holt finds out his serial killer on death row has escaped and thinks he has headed for Mount Mitchell where he could hideout.  

This book is full blown edge of your seat suspense from the first page.    The plot is both intriguing and realistic.  The characters are fully developed showing both their strengths and flaws.  The author has a talent for pulling the reader into the story and holding them until the last page is turned.  This book was no different.  I couldn't put it down until I finished it. This is definitely a book I would recommend to anyone who loves a great suspense.  

*I received this book from the author via the publisher.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.  

About the Author:

Lynette Eason is the best selling, award winning author of almost forty books including the Women of Justice series, the Deadly Reunions series, the Hidden Identity Series and the Elite Guardians series. She writes for Revell and Harlequin’s Love Inspired Suspense line. Her books have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists. She has won several awards including the 2013, 2016 and 2017 Carol Award in the Romantic Suspense category. She's also the recipient of the Christian Retailing's Best 2017 Award. She placed in the top ten (out of thousands of entries) in the James Patterson 2016 co-writer contest. Her Stolen Past was recently made into a Lifetime Movie Network movie and will air February 2nd, 2018. Lynette teaches at writing conferences all over the country. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), Romance Writers of America (RWA), Mystery Writers of America (MWA), International Thriller Writers (ITW), and Faith, Hope, and Love chapter of RWA as well as the Kiss of Death (KOD) chapter. Lynette can be found online at www.lynetteeason.com and www.facebook.com/lynette.eason and @lynetteeasonon Twitter.

Brides of Hope Mountain #1

When Strangers Intrude
on Three Wild Sisters' Hidden Mountain Life,
Their World Will Never Be the Same.

Published October 1st 2019 

by Bethany House Publishers

Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls' secret home, her older sister is especially frightened, but Jo is too interested to stay away.

David's parents follow soon on his heels, escaping bandits at their ranch. But his father is wounded and needs shelter. Josephine and her sisters have the only cabin on the mountain. Do they risk stepping into the world to help those in need? Or do they remain separated but safe in the peaks of Hope Mountain?

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My Thoughts:

Mary Connealy is one of my go-to authors, in other words one of my favorites, so when I found out she was writing a new series I could hardly wait for the release. 

This is the first book in her new series, Brides of Hope Mountain. 

This series centers around 3 sisters who grew up in the vast wilderness of southwestern Colorado widely known as Hope Mountain. As young children there parents went off the mountain, never returned and was assumed dead by their parents, so the raising of the children were left to the grandparents.  Essentially they were taught to live off the land and to never venture off the mountain because of the wickedness and disease that was in the outside world.  

This story vastly centers around the middle sibling, Josephine Nordegren.  Some might think she's wild because of her ability to slip through the forest without being noticed or maybe it was her cunning with a bow and arrow.  She also has a curiosity about how things work or live an likes to sit back and watch. 

Curiosity gets the best of Jo when a man, David Warden, brings a herd of cattle to the valley below their cabin.  David longs for a ranch of his own and if he has to move up the mountain to do it, then he will.  What he doesn't expect to to find a half wild, but beautiful woman and his parents arrival soon after his with his father sporting a deadly gunshot wound.  Now David knows he isn't alone of the mountain and needs to protect his family from the bandits his father fought off at his homestead and his cattle. 

This historical is an action packed adventure filled with innocence, humor, romance, mystery, and faith.  Jo reminded my of Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games.  She was a lovable character, deadly with an arrow, loves her family, but at the same time she isn't afraid to try new things.  David is like all people he wants something, land/ranch, to call is own.  He's not afraid of hard work or danger, but is intrigued/fascinated by Jo and her ability to live off the land completely.  He loves and respects his parents as is evident by the way he treats them. The plot for me was very thought provoking.  The thought of living away from civilization sounds very scary to me.  I guess with the sisters you don't miss something you haven't experienced and when suddenly invaded by the outside world would be scary.  

This is a book that I would recommend to anyone who loves history, romance or just a good clean read.  

*I received this book from the author via the publisher as part of the book blogging team.  I was not required to write a positive review.  All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

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Let me give you a sneak peek at the next book in this series:

He's Seen the Entire Country.

She's Never Been Off Her Mountain Home.

When Danger Comes, This Unlikely Couple Will Need to Rely on Each Other.

After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. But with the arrival of added danger, it may cost them the only life they've ever known.

Having made his fortune, Mitch Warden returned home and found the family homestead abandoned. In a land grab, a ruthless cattle baron had forced his family to escape up the mountain, and when Mitch follows, the last thing he expects is to fall smitten with a strong-willed, dark-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood and defends herself better than most men.

Mitch is intent on helping his family reclaim their land but doesn't realize the risks his past has brought. Hired killers are tracking him, and he's determined to draw them away before anyone else gets hurt. But that means a journey to the city--and when Ilsa insists on joining him, the mismatched pair suddenly find themselves on an adventure they'll never forget.