Book Summary (Amazon): Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He may be living alone in Alaska now, but the pain of his failure--and his injuries--has followed him there from Afghanistan. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali.
Former CIA profiler and psychiatrist Jenny Calhoun's yearly extreme challenge with her best friends is her only escape from the guilt that has sunk its claws into her. As a consultant during a top-secret mission to root out the Taliban, she green-lighted an operation that ended in ambush and lives lost. When her cathartic climb on Denali turns deadly, she'll be forced to trust her life and the lives of her friends to the most dangerous of heroes--the man she nearly killed.
Her skills and his experience are exactly what's needed to prevent another tragedy--but in order to truly set Orion free from his painful past, Jenny will have to reveal hers. They'll have to put their wounds behind them to survive, but at what cost?
My thoughts.... I just couldn't stop until I finished this book last night! It was an action packed plot, especially in the last half of the book. Rescues, mountain climbing, danger, terrorism, romance...all on a mountain peak in Alaska. Even though these were fictional characters, I loved the way their courage was portrayed in the book. Not just courage to face huge physical challenges, but also mental and emotional challenges. Susan May Warren doesn't shy away from letting her characters have real-life issues: mental breakdowns, depression, insecurity, and trauma, to name a few. I appreciated that. I also appreciated the details related to the mountain climbing aspect of the novel. I honestly got a little lost in keeping up with all of the equipment and technique; I have no previous knowledge of any of it with the exception of the caribiner clip I used as a keychain in college. As someone who likes to form mental pictures of what's happening as I'm reading, I struggled to do that with the influx of so many things I didn't know. However, I can completely recognize the author's knowledge and research that must've went into writing it. That is to be commended. On a different note, the romantic tension provided a reprieve from all of the mountain climbing intensity. There was some backstory with each character that affected the romance, but it was given in bits and pieces. I'm not sure if some of the characters had parts in other books, or if we'll just learn more as we go through the series. I'm really looking forward to the next book!
**I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in order to give my honest opinion, which I did.**
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