BOOK REVIEW- CHOSEN Book #1 by D.G. Swank

**Updated to include the short story Emergence.**

Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year old son who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma’s never needed help before. And even though she’s learned to trust her son, it doesn’t mean she trusts Will. 

Mercenary Will Davenport lives in the moment. Hauling Emma to South Dakota should have been an easy job, but his employer neglected to tell him about Emma’s freaky son and the gunmen hot on her trail. Instinct tells him this job is trouble, but nothing can prepare him for Jake’s proclamation that Will is The Chosen One, who must protect Emma from the men hunting her power. A power she doesn't know she has. 

Will protects Emma and Jake on a cross-country chase from the men pursuing them, while struggling with memories from his past, his apprehension of Jake, and his growing attraction to Emma. Will’s overwhelming urge to protect Emma surprises him, especially since it has nothing to do with his paycheck and possibly everything to do with the tattoo Jake branded on his arm. Rich and powerful men are desperate to capture Emma, and Will must discover why before it's too late.   AMAZON  4.5 STARS


To begin with let me just say how much I loved the fierce artwork on this eBook cover.  It really captured my attention.  The book blurb did a good job of catching my attention too. 
The story proved to be intense.  Not just a little bit intense but high level intense.  Emma's love for her son is so strongly felt that you just know she will do whatever she has to in order to protect him. And then she does.  
Will is a very much unknown quantity at first when he shows up in her life.  And she sure wishes that Jake would stop saying that they needed him.  She doesn't trust him and inch and tries many times to just ditch him. But then Jake takes up that same refrain that "they needed him."  
Will is the first to say he wasn't a good man and owns up to fact that he's done bad things.  However when Jake looks deep into him he sees that Will can be trusted and IS a good man. 
This is often a pretty emotional story and not just from trying to escape from what Jake calls, "the bad men."  There seems to be plenty of those and they are ruthless, clever and relentless. There is also some mystical stuff going on.  
There isn't what I would call a H.E.A. in this book but there is a kind of a relief for the moment for Book #1.  Yes, this is a series so there are a lot of unanswered questions and more troubles to sort out.  All heading to what I hope is a H.E.A.  It does look promising from some of the other reviews that I have read about Book #4.