Jakes gives us the perfect balance here of revealing enough backstory to continue to fuel the excitement for these guys, while at the same time holding enough in reserve to carry through the rest of the series. They are such deep, layered characters, men who can carry a multi-book series and continue to be interesting and reveal new facets of themselves along the way. Yet here we see the guys make progress, admitting their feelings for one another, sharing their anxieties, and even revealing some of those secrets from their pasts that we have been getting glimpses of along the way. Both men are full of secrets and dark pasts, and opening up to one another is still hard. Jakes does these intense alpha men so well and they are hard and strong and tough as nails. Prophet and Tom continue to be such a great couple. There are so many twists and turns that I couldn’t read through this one fast enough. These books don’t take you on a traditional suspense arc. Not just the incredible intensity, but also the feeling that you never really knows what is going to happen next. The story is nonstop suspense and excitement. This second book in that series picks up shortly after the end of the first, catches us up on what has been going on with Tom and Prophet, and then throws us right back into the action. I continue to love this world she has built, first with Free Fallingand then with the first book in the Hell and High Water series, Catch a Ghost. Jakes, full of excitement and suspense and romance and heat. Tom’s past continues to haunt him and when he is arrested on suspicion of murder, the two men must work to figure out who is killing people from Tom’s past, and what to do stay alive themselves. But nothing is ever easy between them and managing the storm ends up being the least of their problems. When Tom manages to make it New Orleans as well, the two men are reunited and it is clear that there is just as much passion and intensity between them as there was before.
When a huge hurricane threatens to once again strike New Orleans and Tom is stuck out of the country, he appeals to Prophet to look in on his elderly aunt. But Prophet isn’t answering Tom’s almost daily emails and Tom isn’t sure how or if he will see Prophet again.
Even though Tom fears he is bad luck and curses his partners, he also knows he would much rather be with Prophet than away from him. But Tom is still trying, having realized that he made a huge mistake by leaving Prophet. And Prophet has left his job and gone deep into black ops with no way to be reached. Tom continues to work for Extreme Escapes, Ltd and has been training in Eritrea with his new partner. It has been about four months since Prophet and Tom ended their partnership and went their separate ways.
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