Fugitive Hunt

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SCOTT, LAURA

FUGITIVE HUNT

A criminal on the lam...and danger in the mountains.

Surviving an attack by her serial killer cousin five years ago left police officer Morganne Kimball his number one target. But she refuses to be his next victim, even if he has now escaped prison and is seeking revenge. Her only choice is to team up with US deputy marshal Colt Nelson, who is determined to capture the fugitive before he's able to strike at Morganne again.

A Justice Seekers Thriller

My Review:

Prepare to go on a fictional manhunt! Follow the clues...and the danger...that will lead to the capture of an escaped prisoner. A serial killer, no less! This gripping romantic suspense is a little different from the norm, since we know who the bad guy hunting Morganne is. And I love that the plot quickly flips to Morganne and US deputy marshal Colt Nelson becoming the hunters. There's chaos and carnage and enough near misses to use up all of a feline's nine lives! The reluctant romance between two people determined to focus on career, not family adds an extra dimension to the already plentiful tension. A spectacular conclusion to the Justice Seekers Thriller series. (This is the sixth book, but reads very well as a standalone...though Justice Seekers fan will enjoy a few cameos.)

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This giveaway is for a gently read paperback copy. 

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Hiding in Montana

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SCOTT, LAURA

HIDING IN MONTANA

A fugitive at large...

This K-9 on his trail.

To save a woman from being kidnapped, Officer Chris Fuller and his K-9 partner, Teddy, have no choice but to let the fugitive they're tracking get away. But when the escaped murderer returns to hunt tour pilot Lexie McDaniels again, Chris knows the attempted kidnapping wasn't a chance encounter. Lexie won't be safe until he catches the criminal...but are her secrets what is endangering them all?

Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit

My Review:

Classic 'she's keeping secrets (for a good reason), he's been hurt by women keeping secrets in the past' trope. I was on edge right through the read (er, listen) waiting for the big reveal. Ouch. It went as I expected and fallout ensued. Lots of emotional wrangling in this third Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit continuity series and I gobbled it up!

Of course, I love the K-9 angle and this time it's spaniel Teddy (totally cute name for police dog! lol) and his sensitive snout that takes the limelight. Love the little training details the authors include in these novels! Scott does an excellent job of relating what it's like to work with a tracking dog without bogging the action down.

So, if you're new to the continuity series concept it's basically a multi-authored series where there's one over arcing suspense thread slowly being worked out in the background to the unique suspense plot for each novel. Plus there's a new romance every month! All of which makes me so happy. (Each book can be read as a standalone though, so you can jump in any time.) 

And I absolutely love that this series is being offered in audible format as well. I really enjoyed Jennifer Jill Araya's portrayal of these characters.

Goal Update: #6 Stay current with a series.

GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY:

This giveaway is for a paperback or ebook copy -- winner's choice.

If you would like a chance to win a copy of Hiding in Montana leave a comment below or email me at kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca. If you add your email to a comment, remember to use AT AND DOT instead of @ and . in order to protect yourself from spammers. If you enter the Draw via email, please add the title to the subject line so it's easy to spot your entry. Draw will be held and winner announced on Saturday May 28 2022. Offer open to International Readers.

Hailey's Haven

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SCOTT, LAURA

HAILEY'S HAVEN

A safe place to call home...

After escaping her abusive foster parents thirteen years ago, Hailey Donovan thought her nightmare was over. Gatlinburg, Tennessee had been a safe to live, until she's nearly hit by gunfire while hiking the Smoky Mountains. Her instincts are to avoid law enforcement, especially handsome park ranger Rock Wilson, but when more gunfire echoes around them, they're forced to work together to escape.

More attempts against Hailey convinces her to leave the city to start over someplace new. Rock talks her into staying and fighting against the unknown assailant. He senses Hailey has been traumatized in the past, and is determined to uncover the mystery surrounding her. As Hailey and Rock seek the truth behind the escalating attacks, Rock realizes he's also in danger of losing his heart. Can Rock provide Hailey the safe haven she desperately needs?

My Review:

This fast-paced suspense makes for an interesting start to Laura Scott's Smoky Mountain Secrets series. It looks like the books are going to be linked by a group of scattered former foster kids who find their way back to each other during the course of the series. Which kind of gives me O'Malley (Dee Henderson) vibes only in this case, the siblings haven't kept in touch with each other.

Hailey's past is heartbreaking and her persona is defined by it. She's standoffish and untrusting. A loner who is grateful for the little bit of fortune she has in a job she loves and a place to call home. Until it's all threatened by a mysterious gunman.

Rock was in the right place at the right time and gets swept along in the wake of Hailey's trauma...doggedly sticking to her no matter how hard she tries to shake him. She's Miss Independence and he's Mr. Protective, so you can imagine how that goes down. :-) 

Lots of tension and conflict in this enemies to more (on Hailey's side anyway) romance. Love how she gradually begins to open up to Rock and how prayerfully constant he is about helping her. Lesser men would have washed their hands of her after all her rebuffs and rebukes.

I listened to the audible edition narrated by Brenda Scott Wlazlo and between the storytelling and the narrating, Hailey's Haven easily became a compulsive listen. I'm eagerly looking forward to the second book, Sawyer's Secret which is also on audible. Yay!

Goal Update: #1 Read more indie authors (in the hybrid section -- authors both traditionally and independently published), #7 Start new-to-me series, #8 Play author catch-up

 GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY:

This giveaway is for a paperback or ebook copy -- winner's choice.

If you would like a chance to win a copy of Hailey's Haven, leave a comment below or email me at kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca. If you add your email to a comment, remember to use AT AND DOT instead of @ and . in order to protect yourself from spammers. If you enter the draw via email, please add the title to the subject line so it's easy to spot your entry. Draw will be held and winner announced on Saturday March 12 2022. Offer open to International Readers. Good luck

Wyoming Mountain Escape

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SCOTT, LAURA

WYOMING MOUNTAIN ESCAPE

A bride on the run in the mountain wilderness...and a killer on the prowl.

Just as Chelsey Robards decides to call off her wedding, her soon-to-be husband is shot and killed at the altar. When the bullets start to fly her way, the best man, former Special Ops soldier Duncan O'Hare, drags her to safety. But with an unknown enemy on their trail, can they survive long enough to find out why she's a target?

A Justice Seekers Romance

My Review:

Bwahahaha -- eeeepp -- what a surprising opening scene! Talk about starting things off on an adrenaline rush and keeping a reader on high alert for the duration of the read. This is wilderness survival meets lethal pursuit in a nail-biting, high octane woosh of frantic page turning. 

It's also a friends to something more romance, which I love. And, though I was wary about love blossoming so quickly after the tragic death of Chelsey's fiance, you can trust Laura Scott to make it work in a real and relatable way. I'm  a happy reader on both the romance and suspense front. Definitely a read-in-one-sitting kind of story.

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Copycat Killer

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SCOTT, LAURA
COPYCAT KILLER

Murder strikes close to home for a new K-9 unit in Brooklyn

When a double homicide is strikingly familiar to a twenty-year old cold case, Detective Nate Slater is rattled by the parallels. With a child as the only witness, he and his K-9 partner must protect little Lucy and her aunt, Willow Emery. Nate's rough past means he always keeps an emotional distance...but in this case getting closer is the only way they'll all survive.

My Review:

What an intense opening scene! And then it's just a rush of adrenaline all the way to the end.

I am so jazzed about this new LIS K-9 continuity series! We're back in New York City -- Brooklyn this time and there are some carryovers from the previous True Blue K-9 series -- like Murphy (pictured on the cover) is one of Stella's puppies! All grown up and a real K-9 officer rock star! You totally don't have to be able to make that connection in order to enjoy Copycat Killer -- just a fun bit of book nerd trivia. :-)

This time round, the over arcing suspense that will be carried through all eight books is a particularly grizzly copycat murder. It won't be solved until the very last book BUT Nate and Willow do solve their case and wind up in in each other's arms by the very last page so there's plenty of closure for reader's who don't like cliffhanger endings.

A splendid start to what looks to be an addictive new K-9 series!

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Blind Trust

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SCOTT, LAURA
BLIND TRUST

A puppy stolen, a woman in jeopardy...the next exciting True Blue K-9 Unit story

When guide dog trainer Eva Kendall stumbles on a dognapping someone sets their deadly sights on her. Now she'll do anything to find her guide-dog-in-training -- except admit her most painful secret to K-9 officer Finn Gallagher. But can Finn and his K-9 partner help her track down the puppy...and uncover the criminal's true motives before attacks on Eva turn fatal?

My Review:

Isn't that a great cover? See the little chocolate lab sheltered below the fearless K-9?! That just melts my socks off! Love, love, love this continuity series! This is the third book but easily reads well as a standalone. Love that it's these special dogs and their individual talents that link the books in this series. Of course, the handlers are pretty cool too. :-) Like debonaire Finn Gallagher who has a bit of a reputation as a ladies' man. Eva isn't interested though (ha!) she has enough going on in her life including a secret she's very reluctant to share with Finn. Cue the tension and angst and the trauma of dognapping (gasp!) Mystery and suspense collide with the sweet stirrings of new love and that results in another stellar addition to the True Blue K-9 Unit series!

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Battle Tested

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SCOTT, LAURA
BATTLE TESTED

Keeping guard -- because a killer lurks
A Military K-9 Unit novel

When Captain Isaac Goddard saves Vanessa Gomez from a vicious attack, he discovers the feisty military nurse is the Red Rose Killer's next target. With help from Vanessa's guard Doberman, the former pilot makes it his mission to protect Vanessa and her young brother. But when the danger closes in, can he overcome the post-traumatic stress that haunts him and stop a ruthless killer?

My Review:

Puppies!!!!! And they are named after national parks — how can a reader resist that? Plus, there are three K-9s in this story as well!!! This might be the first book I’ve read where the dogs outnumber the humans and I’m loving it!

Okay, the hero and heroine are pretty cool too. We’ve met them both in previous Military K-9 books and I’ve actually been really looking forward to Isaac’s story. No worries if you haven’t read any of the previous books — each one reads well as a stand-alone. Though they share a common suspense thread, each story has a unique mystery to solve too...and a romance to sort out! But I earned bragging rights because I figured out who the anonymous blogger was two books ago and information in Battle Tested proves l was right!!!! Woot! How’s that for some keen armchair sleuthing?

Looking forward to the series grand finale next month when the Red Rose Killer will finally face justice!

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Primary Suspect

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SCOTT, LAURA
PRIMARY SUSPECT

Wrongfully Accused
A Callahan Confidential story

When fire investigator Mitch Callahan is attacked at a crime scene, he's shocked to uncover the body of a slain ex-girlfriend - and realize someone's framing him for murder. Widowed ER nurse Dana Petrie believes Mitch is innocent, and not just because he makes her feel alive again after tragedy marred her past. But is she willing to risk everything only to love and lose again?

My Review:

Pages crackle with tension from the very first paragraph as Mitch cautiously approaches a burnt-out warehouse. Argh! I told him to go back, that this was a set up but did he listen? Nope. Didn't even acknowledge my concern and once he entered that warehouse...well the race was on.

This taut romantic suspense has a Fugitive edge to it as Mitch  dodges a killer. A case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time drags Dana into the danger. A fast-paced page-turner with a fine balance between suspense and romance. And fans of this Callahan Confidential series will be thrilled to meet up with some familiar faces here. It pays to be part of a law enforcement family when you're running for your life without a clue as to why! No worries if you haven't read the other books though because this one reads fine as a standalone. I've just read Shattered Lullaby so far but I intend to check out the first three books soon!

Book provided courtesy of Love Inspired.

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Shattered Lullaby

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SCOTT, LAURA
SHATTERED LULLABY

Safeguarding the baby

Overhearing the murder of her sister, Lacy Germaine grabs her baby nephew and flees for their lives. But not before she's seen by the killer -- who she's certain is her lawman brother-in-law. Now an instant mom on the run, Lacy will protect the baby at all costs, and she trusts nobody. Not even her rescuer, K-9 cop Matt Callahan. Despite the police alert issued for the missing little boy, Matt believes that Lacy is innocent of kidnapping. Keeping them safe soon becomes his top priority. But no matter how deep they hide, danger finds them...until Matt is all that stands between the beautiful woman, the vulnerable baby and a desperate killer.

Callahan Confidential: Facing danger and fighting for justice is all in a day's work for this family.

My Review:

So, clearly I've been missing out on something good since this is the fourth book in the Callahan Confidential series and I'm just discovering it now. I don't know how my romantic suspense spidey senses went so askew but, thankfully, the gorgeous cover on Shattered Lullaby screamed 'buy me' so I did! Now I'll have to check out the other stories involving Matt's siblings.

I can't resist a good K-9 story and this one is tremendous! That's Duchess on the cover and she's Matt's loyal partner who can double as a babysitter in a pinch. :-) She gave me plenty of gray hairs during this read though because she's fearless! And yes, there are some pretty cool humans in this story as well. You gotta love a dog lovin' hero dedicated to his calling in law enforcement but not afraid to trust his gut in touchy situations. Like the one Lacy finds herself in. Cue nerve wracking action and edgy suspense as Matt and Lacy dive through mayhem to solve an impossibly complicated case. Four paws up for this K-9 heroine and two-legged sidekicks!

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Sheriff

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SCOTT, LAURA
SHERIFF

Hazardous Homecoming

Witnessing a prison break, FBI agent Julianne Martinez is within seconds of death...before she's rescued by the one man she thought she'd never see again. She'd know her long-ago love, Brody Kenner, anywhere, even with a sheriff star on his chest. Years ago she left Texas and Brody, and had no plans of returning...until the trail of a missing agent brought her home to both. Brody won't let her investigation proceed without him, and he needs her and her K-9 dog to track his escaped prisoner. But partnering with Julianne to solve two cases only leads to danger when the hunted becomes the hunter. This is a mission that cannot fail...because Brody lost Jilianne once, and he won't lose her again.

My Review:

Oh what a tangled web we weave...and goodness, but there's nothing but gnarly tangles in this plot. Knots pulled so tight I didn't think we'd ever see the light of day never mind solve any crimes. Action and danger and the regret of a lost romance stirred up enough angst to keep my nose in the book until I reached the heart-pounding end. Phew!

This is the second book in the Classified K-9 Unit continuity series and features Thunder the fox hound. Doesn't he make a handsome cover model? He's courageous and clever and affectionate...everything a girl could hope for in a hero, canine or otherwise. :-) You don't need to have read the first book in the series though it does set the stage for suspense that runs through each of the six books. But Scott does a really good job of incorporating need-to-know information seamlessly into her story so a reader won't ever feel lost. I'm looking forward to reading the next installment in May.

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If you would like an opportunity to win a copy of Sheriff please leave a comment or send me an email at kavluvstoreadATyahooDOTca. If you post a comment and add your email address, please use AT and DOT instead of @ and . in order to protect yourself from spammers. If you enter the draw via email please remember to put the title in the subject line to make it easier for me to spot your entry. Draw will be held and winner announced on Sunday April 30. Offer open to international readers. Good luck!