The Challenge between Ellie Ryan and Vince Corelli had been tough. It was both mentally and physically exhausting, not to mention overloaded with sexual tension. In the end, Ellie exited victorious as the test pilot of the brand new XH8 helicopter, Vince was offered a high paying private sector job, and they finally allow themselves one night of passion before going their separate ways.
Months later, Ellie’s crew has been murdered and the prototype helicopter she was piloting hijacked. All evidence leads to her involvement in a deadly terrorist game. Her only hope of survival is to open herself up and accept help, if it arrives in time.
Vince, a Resolutions operative, is sent to retrieve the XH8 from Colombia and deal with the woman the U.S. military believes to be behind the plot to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, but will he be able to overcome his trust issues in time to prove Ellie’s innocence? AMAZON
4 Stars is what I will be rating in on Amazon.
The title choice for this book was a good one and accurate one too. The Challenge was the actual start up Event of the book, but the challenges continue repeatedly throughout the book. Not only militarily, or just espionage, or terrorism but also the man woman challenge. One of them of course is the challenge between Ellie and Vince. With their off the chart attraction and trust issues, its not an easy road for either of them. Ellie had to grow up fast and without having many people to lean and really no man that she felt would help, let alone stick around. Vince had a "woman done me wrong" experience and there was no woman that he felt he could ever trust to really have his back. Uh Oh, can you feel the troubles coming? And that's not even counting the other people who plan to make their lives miserable. Still the romance part of the book was pretty good.
I was torn on how to rate this book because there were parts that I liked and some not quite so much. I guess to say honestly, you should probably expect some of the language, the violence because of the book's setting. Parts of it are raw, sometimes crude but as I look back I guess to be honest it's not as explicit as it could have been.
A little bit hard to believe that Ellie was beaten up time after time, when the same man had been warned against it. Threaten and beaten for it at least once and he just keeps it up? Where did the woman go who said she would kill him if Ellie had even one more mark on her? As you can see, I haven't mentioned the name of the person torturing her or the woman in charge. Why ruin the surprises?
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you for the great review!
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