This is book three of The Guardians series and the main character in this book is Logan Channon, whose story starts as a young nine year old boy, faced with the most impossible decision. His uncle, Roth, had hunted down his family to get back at his sister, but in her absence, he forced Logan to make the choice of killing his father, or his little baby sister Ashlyn. Luckily, his mother and his sisters were away at the doctors for an appointment. The act he was forced to do, led him on a path of darkness, as he ran from what was left of his family, unable to face them after what he did. He grew up doing all he could to prepare to carry out his father’s last request. To find the rest of his family and train himself to be able to do so, by developing his own psychic abilities and skills learnt in the military. To be ready for whatever comes and also to get revenge against Roth! Two decades later, he has just left the military and less than an hour after his departure, his ex-commander Major Clannahan, asked to speak to him. He wants assistance from Logan to help track down a terrorist group and in return he has some news about his sisters, Ashlyn and Keira.
He doesn’t get to work with his usual unit! The Major has brought along Tori (Tourmaline) McPherson, a psych expert, Kevin their computer tech expert and liaison with the major and Chaz their tech, logistics and backup in the field. But the major has new that there is a mole in their organisation and there had already been two attempts on his own life and he had put his family into a safe house. The major doesn’t know about Logan’s special abilities, nor those of others around them, but he has questions. They have some news about a Dr Talbot at Fort Detrick and a mutated virus, whilst a large amount of C4 had been stolen and they don’t know where any targets may be. Links to a terrorist called Hamar, bring concerns about numerous terrorist attacks occurring shortly. Logan wants to find his family and soon learns his twin sisters may have been located, but the major can’t tell him exactly where and he and the team need to stop these terror attacks first and foremost! Roth is back in the mix and working on his own plans to get one or both of the sisters for himself, plus Logan, if he can.
Nicolai and his group of warriors, along with Keira and her twin sister Ashlyn, will soon have to team up with Kenner’s group, who they recently had help them when they were attacked by Roth and Co. Tori knows nothing about people with certain abilities and is on her very first mission, mainly due to her link to the major and the fact he trusts her. Annoyingly, Logan can’t figure out exactly what her relationship is to the major, especially how close she seems to him, but how she also seems to react in a romantic way to Logan himself. When he finally gets to meet his sisters, Logan sees how strongly their men, Wyatt and Taylor, protect them and clearly love them, as he does Tori. Logan has to finally tell someone else about what he was forced to do as a child and what happened because of his choices back then. Nicolai is very good at seeing what is in someone’s future and being easy to talk to about difficult matters. There is still more of his family to be found once they stop the terrorist attack and put an end to Roth, once and for all. Depending on who kills him, it may mar their future and their very soul. Difficult actions to be taken by Logan and his sisters and nothing ever goes right or easily when you have such evil enemies. A complex ending which allows for some sense of satisfaction for actions of the past, but still so much more to come. I look forward to reading more about the Channon family and seeing what all of them can do! I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.