Savage Rising (Redemption Harbor #2)

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Release Date September 26, 2017

From USA Today bestselling author Katie Reus comes the second book in the ALL NEW Redemption Harbor series where sparks fly and so do bullets…

He's a former Marine, her new fake boyfriend, and the only way to escape her dangerous past.

Having a child changed everything for Olivia—she vowed to keep her little girl safe from the mistakes of her past. But when the most dangerous person she ever met blackmails her into doing one last heist, the world she’s so carefully built goes into a tailspin. Frantic, she heads to Redemption Harbor in search of help. Sparks fly when she meets Savage, a man who will do anything to keep Olivia and her daughter safe. He’ll help her get her life back, but can he handle seeing who she once was? 

Can they pull it off?

Savage poses as her obsessive ex during a daring undercover operation—and soon the line between reality and their cover story becomes blurred. He’ll use every trick he knows to keep the sensual woman alive and out of jail—and in his life. But the clock is ticking and if they can’t find a way to trust each other, no one will make it out alive.

Author note: all books in the Redemption Harbor series can easily be read as individual titles. There are no cliffhangers and each story has an HEA. 

Olivia Carter and her daughter have come to Redemption Harbor in need of help. Her past is coming back to haunt her and those she cares about are in danger. Fortunately her friend, Skye is part of a security agency there and can provide assistance. Olivia has made mistakes in the past but has already had repercussions from them, and just wants to be a good mother and provide them with a safe life.

Zac Savage is former Marine and CIA contractor who is now working with his friends at the new agency. He is brawny, sexy, bossy, and closed off. He has always felt somewhat isolated and undeserving. He never planned on being interested in anyone for more than a one-night-stand. But something about Olivia compels him. He finds he is not only playing the undercover part of her fake boyfriend obsessed with her, but is becoming a bit obsessed with her himself.

They are in the midst of an ever-changing undercover op with twists and surprises. Olivia and Zac are forced to follow along with the demands of a dangerous man while the team needs to find a way to keep them and those she cares about safe, and stop any blow back on them all. It is full of danger, suspense, surprises, sexual tension, and action.

Zac is raw and real. He puts on a facade of being the unaffected tough guy, but it is not long until his softer side shows. He does not want to fall, but seems powerless not to. He is protective, caring, and possessive.  Olivia has to make sure her daughter is safe and getting attached to a deadly man who is not interested in relationships surely does not seem like a good plan. But that will not stop the lust, longing, and chemistry. I will admit, it was a bit insta-lovey. I would have liked a bit more of the romantic development. But it was a fast-paced, romantic suspense story with likable characters that had complex back stories.

This brings back the team we met in Resurrection: Colt, Skye, Brooks, Mercer, Mary Grace, Gage, and Leighton. I enjoy getting multiple points of view. They are friends and pseudo-family with their own special skill sets that make them a formidable team. And they are determined that Olivia and her daughter will have their full protection. A couple of other story teases were laid out for two of the other guys, so I am interested to see who will be next...Gage or Brooks.

I was gifte a copy in exchange for an honest review.