3.75 stars
About the book: Release Date August 11, 2014
It should have been a simple rescue mission…
Retired Pararescueman, Quinn Wolff, wrote the book on how to stay alive during a mission when he founded Wolff Securities, an elite private sector security firm. When he fast-ropes down to save missing humanitarian aid worker, Avery Marks, in the remote mountains of Azbakastan he isn’t prepared for the brave, stubborn woman who challenges the rules he wrote in order to protect her.
But when it comes to matters of the heart nothing is simple…
Avery Marks learned a long time ago to take care of herself, but when her convoy is attacked, her friends and coworkers murdered, she has to rely on the aid of intensely capable and handsome, Quinn Wolff to get her safely out of the country. His skills keep her alive, but his kisses put her in danger. In danger of losing her heart. That’s a risk she can’t take ever again.
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REVIEW: 3.75 stars----MAXIMUM RISK is the first installment in Jennifer Lowery’s contemporary adult WOLFF SECURITIES military romance, suspense series focusing on the Wolff family and their private security firm-Wolff Securities. This is retired pararescueman Quinn Wolff, and international aid worker Avery Marks.
Told from several third perspectives MAXIMUM RISK focuses on the search and rescue of Avery Marks after her humanitarian team is reported missing and presumed dead in the mountains of Azbakastan, and she is the lone survivor able to identify an infamous warlord. What ensues is a dangerous rescue that follows the extraction team cross country, where one of their own doesn’t make it out alive, and Avery’s return to civilization where she is persona non-grata to a family who lost their youngest child, yet remains a target of a warmongering madman. Not once, but twice more, Avery will find herself in the hands of a radical terrorist.
The relationship between Quinn and Avery is one of forbidden love. Avery is Quinn’s charge; his latest assignment and he must remain neutral and on guard as the same people who ambushed and killed Avery’s team, continue their hunt for the woman with whom Quinn has fallen in love. The $ex scenes are intimate without the over the top graphic element.
There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Quinn’s six siblings, his sympathetic parents, and local law enforcement. The world building focuses on the Wolff Securities, and the Wolff family dynamics.
MAXIMUM RISK is a suspense filled story of romance and love; heartbreak and loss; family and future. The premise is moving and compelling; the characters are emotional and intense; the romance is passionate and real. Jennifer Lowery writes a timely tale that will resonate with many readers.
My only issue is how a radical madman; a Middle East warlord and his soldiers are able to enter the USA without detection, and kidnap the same woman two more times. Is it even possible?
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