Review copy was received from NetGalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Lethal Redemption by April Hunt Series: Steele Ops #2
Published by Forever on November 26, 2019
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Pages: 688
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
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Top FBI profiler Grace Steele was just a girl when she escaped the Order of the New Dawn, and she’s spent the last seventeen years trying to forget her time there. But when private security firm Steele Ops needs her help extracting a young woman from the secretive cult’s clutches, she’s all in. Even though the mission requires posing as the fiancée of the only man who’s ever broken her heart.
It’s been nine years since Cade Wright turned his back on his childhood sweetheart, and he’s never stopped regretting it. Now that they’re forced to work together, he knows this is his opportunity to show Grace how much he’s changed. But the deeper they get pulled into New Dawn, the clearer it becomes that the demons still haunting Grace are very real, and Cade will have to risk everything to keep her safe . . . including his own life.
Includes the bonus novel Extreme Honor by Piper J. Drake!
Lethal Redemption is the second book of the Steele Ops series and it is exactly what I hoped would be different than the first book, Deadly Obsession. I got more of the action and law enforcement work and a bit less of the romance.
I enjoyed being back in the overall world with the characters I already knew and had started to love. The second book in a series always has this advantage. It’s also easier when it is a second chance romance. Grace and Cade were high school sweethearts. He left Grace for more military service nine years ago. Now Cade has left the DC police to join the Steele Ops team, while Grace is an FBI agent based in NY.
Grace is called in to work a case because of her personal background with a cult. She has Steele Ops as her backup team. Cults are scary things because they mess with your head and the only logic they recognize is their own with everything for the good of the one. I felt real suspense when they went to join New Dawn.
The case brought Grace and Cade together and had them working very closely. It also forced them to face their fears and communicate honestly with each other. It felt amazing to see them progress and work through their personal and couple issues while doing a very difficult job undercover. I really liked the handling of the professional and personal aspects.
Giveaway:
The publisher sent me 2 new print copies and I am giving one away. It also contains the book Extreme Honor by Piper J. Drake, see my review here.
About April Hunt
April blames her chocolate addiction on being born near the country chocolate capital in Hershey, Pennsylvania. When April’s not busy raising her husband and two young children (yes, that’s worded correctly), she can be found writing about her next brooding alpha hero and the woman who can easily bring him to his knees.
I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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I have been meaning to start this series. I haven’t read any of her books and want to. I do like your description of the strong suspense element. Oh yeah, cults give me the willies.
I really liked this one and the better balance here than in the first book between romance and mystery. I hope you enjoy it!
cults give me the willies to sophia. i love books about the fbi and this sounds like a series i would enjoy. glad you did
yes, the cult aspect had me on edge from the start.
I love the idea of this series and this book sounds chilling and thrilling. A great recipe. I was going to tell my sister about this one but I see she’s already stopped by and checked it out. I’m excited to try this author. A new one for me!
I liked it. I hope you do too.
Cults give me the creeps but they make for some really great stories. I’m keeping my eye out for this series if it shows up at my library. Great review, Anne?
If it’s not at your library let me know. The first one is at my library so this one likely will be also.
Oh it looks like another good one there!
It kept my attention.
I had my eye on this one on NetGalley. It sounds great but I worried about reading it since I haven’t read the first book in the series. I do love second chance romances.
Same. I saw this and so I grabbed the first one from the library. I liked this one better but I think you need the first for the setup of the world and characters.
I’ve read April’s Alpha Security series.
Did you enjoy it? I may have to go back and read that series also.
Great cover. New author for me.
This is a new author to me also. It’s a genre I enjoy and I really liked this one.