Review: Hour of Need

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While fighting in Afghanistan, Major Grant Barrett receives devastating news: his brother and sister-in-law have been murdered in Scarlet Falls, the sleepy suburb of Grant’s youth. Emotionally scarred from war, the career soldier returns home on emergency leave to temporarily care for his orphaned nephew and niece. But when someone tries to kidnap the kids and their teenage babysitter, Grant knows it’s not a random act…and neither were the murders.

Already devastated by her neighbors’ violent deaths, Ellie Ross is shattered by the attempted abduction of her teenage daughter so she desperately turns to Grant for help. As they navigate a deadly search for the truth, they struggle with growing feelings for each other and Grant’s impending return to Afghanistan.

But time is running out. The killer is growing bolder by the hour, and Ellie and Grant must find him before the children become his next victims.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: December 2014

Mature content: yes

Review: Hour of Need was the first book I read by Melinda Leigh and I loved it. It contains just the right combination of action, suspense and romance. It holds your attention right from the first pages. I would have read it in one sitting if I could.

 

I liked the fact that Grant and Ellie had met before (and that there was already some attraction between them), so it wasn't a case of insta-love. Grant may not be my favorite male character ever and it seemed a bit strange to have him presenting himself as major Barrett everywhere, as if he couldn't at all dissociate his military rank from his identity as a person - but that's just the way he is, at least for the first half of the story. The rest of the characters are great too and the plot flows very well. 

Hour of Need is book one in the Scarlet Falls series and throughout the book there are some insights into the other Barrett brothers' lives that got me curious, so I'm now progressing into book two and I expect to post a review of that one soon too. 

Recommended.   

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